The Story of Solomon "The Judean King" and Makeda (or "Belkis) "The queen of Saba (Hebrew called it Sheba)" (960 B.C.) is one of incredible power, wealth and Passion. This story of very beautiful Black Queen, who attracted by the legendary wisdom of King Solomon. Both the King and Queen were rich and powerful beyond imagination. The Queen of Sheba undertook a long and difficult trek to Jerusalem to learn of the wisdom of the great King Solomon
Saba wanted to impress Solomon with her wealth and arrives with a camel-train laden with spices, gold, and jewels but is overwhelmed by the splendor of Solomon's state. Makeda and King Solomon were equally enchanted with each other, for only the head that wears a crown can truly understand what responsibility that holds . Out of their passion was born a son, Menelik I.

The Queen challenged Solomon with difficult questions and is astonished at the wisdom revealed in his answers. Attributing this, and his people's good fortune in being governed by such a king, to the Hebrew god, Yahweh. She gave up her religion and adopted Judaism. After six-month visit, Makeda requested to return to her own country. Solomon said, "Take this ring so that thou mayest not forget me. And if it happen that I obtain seed from thee, this ring shall be a sign of it, and if she begot a male child, she would crown him king of Ethiopia.

After she left, Solomon took 700 wives and 300 concubines, never finding Love such as the Queen of Sheba. The queen departed for home, and 9 months and 5 days later she gave birth to a male child. She named him Ibn al-Hakim, "son of the wise man." His royal name was Menelik.
At the age of 22 Menelik went to Jerusalem to visit his father but he promised his mother to return. When Solomon realized that he could not convince his son to stay he anointed Menelik king of Ethiopia, bestowed upon him the name of David, and provided him with councilors and officers for the founding of Israel's new kingdom in Ethiopia.
Except for a brief time, Queen Makeda's descendants held the throne of Ethiopia.

Over 3000 Proverbs have been attributed to Solomon, as well as 1005 Psalms, the book of Ecclesiastes and in the Christian Apocrypha, The (Solomon Born to King David and Bathsheba see 1 Kings 10:1-13 of the Bible).

Sommery Info
Born in 1020 B.C. in Ophir, and educated in Ethiopia. Her mother was Queen Ismenie; her father, chief minister to Za Sebado, When her father died in 1005 B.C., Sheba became Queen at the age of fifteen.
OTHER NAMES

*To her people as Makeda
*The Queen of the South,
*to the Moslems, she was Bilqis.
*To King Solomon of Israel, Queen of Sheba or Saba.
*The ancient Greeks she was the Black Minerva and the Ethiopian Diana.


In 960 B.C., the nation now called Ethiopia, was the queen of Sheba's capital was Debra Makeda.
In Ethiopia's church of Axum, there is a copy of what is said to be one of the Tables of Law that Solomon gave to Menelik I.
The Queen of Sheba is a cherished national heritage. in Ethiopia,
This African Queen is mentioned in two holy books, the Bible and the Koran.