To diverge a few lines: Napoleon Bonaparte was a deep student, and when
attempting the conquest of Egypt, he pointed his soldiers to the great
Pyramids saying: “Soldiers of France, forty centuries are looking down
upon you,” he uttered a truth of history, and established an Ethiopian
empire a thousand years before Solomon. The reason is this: The
Ethiopians conquered Egypt, or erected it into a province, and built the
great Pyramids that still exist.
But to return to the Queen of Sheba.
She found a knowledge of God in her visit and carried it back to her
people, because we find His worship beginning to make its appearance
upon the monuments and inscriptions.
Now a singular circumstance is presented by the claim of Ethiopian kings
and princes after the visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon.
It was claimed by the princes of Axoum, in Ethiopia, which was
evangelized by the Empress Helena, consort of the Roman Emperor
Constantine, in the year 324 of the Christian era, that the Queen of
Sheba bore a son to King Solomon, and that he was the founder of a
dynasty, the annals of the kingdom giving a long list of the kings
descended from him, and relating that they governed for centuries
without interruption. Pieces of their money still in existence and the
inscriptions on recently unearthed monuments furnishing evidence of this
fact.
In a history of Alexander the Great, translated from the Ethiopian, it
is related of another Queen of Sheba, who, in the year 332 before the
Christian era, resisted that mighty conqueror with so much vigor, that
he capitulated to her charms, as she was a most beautiful woman, and
left her kingdom in peace. She laughingly reproached him for his
weakness, so the story goes: “You, the mighty conqueror who have never
been defeated by man, have been captured and defeated by a woman.”