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Kebra Nagast

Kebra Nagast 62:8

And the elders of Israel together with their King went into the House of God, and they entered the Holy of Holies, and they made supplication, and prostrated themselves, and ascribed blessing to God.

Kebra Nagast 62:8

And the elders of Israel together with their King went into the House of God, and they entered the Holy of Holies, and they made supplication, and prostrated themselves, and ascribed blessing to God.

Kebra Nagast 62:9

And Solomon wept in the habitation of the heavenly Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God, and they all wept with him, and after a little while they held their peace.

Kebra Nagast 62:10

And Solomon answered and said unto them, "Cease ye, so that the uncircumcised people may not boast themselves over us, and may not say unto us, `Their glory is taken away, and God hath forsaken them.'

Kebra Nagast 62:14

If we do the Will of God and His good pleasure, God will be with us, and will deliver us out of the hand of our enemy, and out of the hand of all those who hate us; God's Will, and not our will, be done, and God's good pleasure, and not our good pleasure, be done.

Kebra Nagast 62:14

If we do the Will of God and His good pleasure, God will be with us, and will deliver us out of the hand of our enemy, and out of the hand of all those who hate us; God's Will, and not our will, be done, and God's good pleasure, and not our good pleasure, be done.

Kebra Nagast 63:1

And then the elders of Israel made answer and said unto him, "May thy good pleasure be done, and the good pleasure of the Lord God!

Kebra Nagast 63:3

And they established this covenant in the House of God--the elders of Israel with their King Solomon unto this day.

Kebra Nagast 63:4

And Solomon lived [thus] for eleven years after the taking away of Zion from him, and then his heart turned aside from the love of God, and he forgot his wisdom, through his excessive love of women.

Kebra Nagast 63:8

Now the queen possessed certain idols which her father had given her to bow down before, and because, when Solomon saw her sacrificing to them and worshipping them, he did not rebuke her or forsake her, God was wroth with him, and made him to forget his wisdom.

Kebra Nagast 64:3

But we worship none else than the Holy God of Israel and our Lady, the holy and heavenly Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God, whom He hath given us to worship, us and our seed after us."

Kebra Nagast 64:3

But we worship none else than the Holy God of Israel and our Lady, the holy and heavenly Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God, whom He hath given us to worship, us and our seed after us."

Kebra Nagast 64:4

And she answered and said unto him, "Thy son hath carried away thy Lady Zion, thy son whom thou hast begotten, who springeth from an alien people into which God hath not commanded you to marry, that is to say, from an Ethiopian woman, who is not of thy colour, and is not akin to thy country, and who is, moreover, black."

Kebra Nagast 64:5

And Solomon answered and said unto her, "Though thou speakest thus art thou not thyself of [that race] concerning which God hath not commanded us that we should take wives from it?

Kebra Nagast 64:7

And God, having destroyed of the seed of Ham seven kings, hath made us to inherit this city, that we and our seed after us may dwell therein for ever.

Kebra Nagast 64:8

And as concerning Zion, the will of God hath been performed, and He hath given her unto them so that they may worship her.

Kebra Nagast 64:15

And he repeated to her the words that he would do whatsoever she wished, and she said unto him, "Swear to me by the God of Israel that thou wilt not play me false."

Kebra Nagast 64:21

Now God had commanded the children of Israel, saying, "Ye shall not marry strange women that ye may not be corrupted by them through their gods, and through the wickedness of their works and the sweetness of their voices; for they make soft the hearts of simple young men by the sweetness of their gentle voices, and by the beauty of their forms they destroy the wisdom of the foolish man."

Kebra Nagast 64:25

Who was handsomer than `Amnon? yet he was seduced by Tamar the daughter of David his father And Adam was the first creation of God, yet he was seduced by Eve his wife.

Kebra Nagast 65:2

And the Archbishops who were there answered and said, "Hath God had mercy on Solomon for this error which is written down [as] his sin?"

Kebra Nagast 65:3

Yea, God hath had mercy upon him, and his name is numbered with [the names of] Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and David his father in the Book of Life in heaven.

Kebra Nagast 65:4

For God is a forgiver of those who have sinned.

Kebra Nagast 65:7

(Bathsheba), the mother of Solomon; and he repented, and God had compassion on him, And when he was dying he advised his son Solomon, saying, "Kill Joab as he killed `Amer (Abner), and kill Shimei because he cursed me"; and he performed the will of his father and slew them after the death of David his father.

Kebra Nagast 65:9

And as concerning the error of Solomon which is written down I will reveal it to you, even as God hath revealed it to me.

Kebra Nagast 66:2

And as Solomon built the house of God, so Christ raised up His Body and made it into the Church.

Kebra Nagast 66:14

"O God, give Thy judgment to the king, and Thy righteousness to the son of the king, so that he may judge thy people with righteousness and thy needy ones with justice.

Kebra Nagast 66:17

God hath sworn, and He will not repent, thou art His priest for ever, after the appointment of Melchizedek."

Kebra Nagast 67:4

And the angel of death came and smote him [in] the foot, and he wept and said, "O Lord God of Israel, I am conquered by the terrestrial law, for there is no one free from blemish before Thee, O Lord, and there is no one! righteous and wise before Thee, O Lord.

Kebra Nagast 67:23

And the Angel of God went down to him and said unto him, "Hearken thou unto what I shall say unto thee, for the sake of which God hath sent me.

Kebra Nagast 67:23

And the Angel of God went down to him and said unto him, "Hearken thou unto what I shall say unto thee, for the sake of which God hath sent me.

Kebra Nagast 67:24

From being a wise man thou hast turned thyself into a fool, and from being a rich man thou hast turned thyself into a poor man, and from being a king thou hast turned thyself into a man of no account, through transgressing the commandment of God.

Kebra Nagast 67:25

And the beginning of thy evil was the taking of many wives by thee, for through this thou didst transgress His Law, and His decree, and the ordinance of God which Moses wrote and gave to you, to Israel, that ye should not marry wives from alien peoples but only from your kinsfolk and the house of your fathers, that your seed might be pure and holy and that God might dwell with you.

Kebra Nagast 67:25

And the beginning of thy evil was the taking of many wives by thee, for through this thou didst transgress His Law, and His decree, and the ordinance of God which Moses wrote and gave to you, to Israel, that ye should not marry wives from alien peoples but only from your kinsfolk and the house of your fathers, that your seed might be pure and holy and that God might dwell with you.

Kebra Nagast 67:26

But thou didst hold lightly the Law of God, thinking that thou wast wiser than God, and that thou wouldst get very many male children.

Kebra Nagast 67:26

But thou didst hold lightly the Law of God, thinking that thou wast wiser than God, and that thou wouldst get very many male children.

Kebra Nagast 67:27

But the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men, and He hath only given thee three sons: the one who carried off thy glory into an alien land, and made the habitation of God to be in Ethiopia; the one who is lame of foot, who shall sit upon thy throne for the people of Israel, the son of the kin of thy kin from Tarbana, of the house of Judah; and the one who is the son of a Greek woman, a handmaiden, who in the last days shall destroy Rehoboam and all thy kin of Israel; and this land shall be his because he believeth in Him that shall come, the Saviour.

Kebra Nagast 67:27

But the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men, and He hath only given thee three sons: the one who carried off thy glory into an alien land, and made the habitation of God to be in Ethiopia; the one who is lame of foot, who shall sit upon thy throne for the people of Israel, the son of the kin of thy kin from Tarbana, of the house of Judah; and the one who is the son of a Greek woman, a handmaiden, who in the last days shall destroy Rehoboam and all thy kin of Israel; and this land shall be his because he believeth in Him that shall come, the Saviour.

Kebra Nagast 67:46

And as thou hast built the house of God, so shall churches be built upon the tops of the mountains."

Kebra Nagast 68:10

And then it waited until six men of wrath had been born, and after that it came to the seventh, David, thy innocent and humble father; for God hateth the arrogant and proud, and loveth the innocent and humble.

Kebra Nagast 68:34

And when Solomon had heard these words, his strength came [back] to him on his bed, and he prostrated himself before the Angel of God, and said, "I give thanks unto the Lord, my Lord and thy Lord, O thou radiant being of the spirit, because thou hast made me to hear a word which filleth me with gladness, and because He doth not cut off my soul from the inheritance of my father because of my sin, and because my repentance hath been accepted after mine affliction, and because He hath regarded my tears, and hath heard my cry of grief, and hath looked upon my affliction, and hath not let me die in my grief, but hath made me to rejoice before my soul shall go forth from my body.

Kebra Nagast 68:39

And if He crush me to powder in His hand and scatter me to the ends of the earth and to the winds because of my sins, it will not make me sorrowful, because I have heard the word that hath made me to rejoice, and God hath not cut my soul off from the inheritance of my fathers.

Kebra Nagast 68:44

Who is like unto God, the Merciful, Who showeth mercy to His handiwork and glorifieth it, Who forgiveth the sins of the sinners and Who doth not blot out the memorial of the penitent?

Kebra Nagast 69:6

And when the Angel of God had spoken these words unto Solomon, he said unto him, "Peace be unto thee."

Kebra Nagast 69:10

And the Angel of God answered him again and said unto him, "Yea, I have told thee that they will crucify the Saviour.

Kebra Nagast 69:29

And do not bow down to strange gods, and do not worship them, but fear and honour God only, so that thou mayest conquer thy foes and thy adversaries, and mayest inherit the habitation of thy father in the heavens, and also eternal life.

Kebra Nagast 70:29

And [God] hath given it to me after my fathers as to them, and I will make you to serve me as ye served them; and now take counsel and obey me!'" And thus also did Rehoboam speak unto the elders of Israel.

Kebra Nagast 70:37

And the word which God spake unto David His servant was not made a lie, "Of the fruit of thy body I will make to sit upon thy throne"; and again He said, "Ordained like the moon for ever"; and again He said, "God sware unto David truly and will not repent."

Kebra Nagast 70:37

And the word which God spake unto David His servant was not made a lie, "Of the fruit of thy body I will make to sit upon thy throne"; and again He said, "Ordained like the moon for ever"; and again He said, "God sware unto David truly and will not repent."

Kebra Nagast 70:39

To Rehoboam God gave only two stems (or, roots); and the King of Rome is the youngest son of Solomon.

Kebra Nagast 70:40

And God did this in order that foolish people might not call us Jews, because of Solomon and because of Rehoboam his son--now God knoweth the heart--and He did this that they might not imagine such a thing.

Kebra Nagast 70:40

And God did this in order that foolish people might not call us Jews, because of Solomon and because of Rehoboam his son--now God knoweth the heart--and He did this that they might not imagine such a thing.

Kebra Nagast 70:48

And Joseph was the son of Jacob in the flesh and the son of `Eli according to the Law; now God had commanded Moses that the Israelites were to marry their kinsfolk, each in the house of his fathers, and that they were not to marry alien women.

Kebra Nagast 71:2

Therefore was Mary betrothed to Joseph her kinsman, as it is said in the Gospel, "O Joseph, son of David, fear thou not to take to wife Mary thy betrothed, for that which is to be born of her is of the Holy Spirit, the Word of God."

Kebra Nagast 71:3

And there was born of her God, the Word, Light of Light, God of God, Son of the Father, Who came and delivered His creation; from the hand of Sheol, and from Satan, and from death He hath delivered all of us who have believed in Him, He hath drawn us to His Father and hath raised us up into heaven His throne to become His heirs; for He is a lover of man, and unto Him praise belongeth for ever.

Kebra Nagast 71:3

And there was born of her God, the Word, Light of Light, God of God, Son of the Father, Who came and delivered His creation; from the hand of Sheol, and from Satan, and from death He hath delivered all of us who have believed in Him, He hath drawn us to His Father and hath raised us up into heaven His throne to become His heirs; for He is a lover of man, and unto Him praise belongeth for ever.

Kebra Nagast 71:3

And there was born of her God, the Word, Light of Light, God of God, Son of the Father, Who came and delivered His creation; from the hand of Sheol, and from Satan, and from death He hath delivered all of us who have believed in Him, He hath drawn us to His Father and hath raised us up into heaven His throne to become His heirs; for He is a lover of man, and unto Him praise belongeth for ever.

Kebra Nagast 72:18

Hold ye not it against me as an evil thing that formerly I took away your sons, for it is a pleasing thing to God that the men of Ethiopia have learned His Name, and have become His people.

Kebra Nagast 72:19

In like manner, the men of Rome, if we give them our children, will become the people of God, and unto us moreover shall be given the name of `People of God,' being spoken of thus and called thus: The people of Israel have taken the kingdom of Ethiopia and the kingdom of Rome.

Kebra Nagast 72:19

In like manner, the men of Rome, if we give them our children, will become the people of God, and unto us moreover shall be given the name of `People of God,' being spoken of thus and called thus: The people of Israel have taken the kingdom of Ethiopia and the kingdom of Rome.

Kebra Nagast 72:27

And they anointed him with the oil of kingship, and commanded him to keep all the laws of the kingdom', and they made him to swear that he would worship no other god except the God of Israel.

Kebra Nagast 72:27

And they anointed him with the oil of kingship, and commanded him to keep all the laws of the kingdom', and they made him to swear that he would worship no other god except the God of Israel.

Kebra Nagast 73:5

And all those who heard the judgment which he pronounced marvelled, and Baltasar said, "Verily, this judgment is a judgment of the people of the God of Israel.

Kebra Nagast 73:7

And all the men of the city of Rome were well pleased, and they made `Adrami king over them, and they rejoiced in him with a great joy; for it happened thus by their will and by the Will of God.

Kebra Nagast 73:9

And the city of Rome became the possession of `Adrami and of his generations after him, for by the Will of God the whole of the kingdom of the world was given to the seed of Shem, and slavery to the seed of Ham, and the handicrafts to the seed of Japhet.

Kebra Nagast 75:2

It came to pass in days of old that there lived in the kingdom of Manasseh, the King of Israel, a certain man whose name was Karmin, and he was a fearer of God, and he gave many alms and oblations to the poor of Israel.

Kebra Nagast 75:3

And when he made offerings to the house of God, he did so with sincerity, and his tithe he gave twofold; and he was good in all his ways, and there was no evil whatsoever before him.

Kebra Nagast 76:2

And they kept watch upon Benyas, the leader of the king's mule, with evil intent, and they abused Karmin, and said unto Benyas, "This Karmin blasphemeth, and he hath blasphemed the King of Israel, the anointed of God, saying, `This king is not the son of a free woman, but the son of an old woman servant whom [a certain man] bought for two kor-measures [of grain] to work at the mill and brick-making.'

Kebra Nagast 76:16

Now, God hath commanded that kings, and governors, and all those who occupy a high position shall investigate an accusation, even as God commanded Moses.

Kebra Nagast 76:16

Now, God hath commanded that kings, and governors, and all those who occupy a high position shall investigate an accusation, even as God commanded Moses.

Kebra Nagast 76:22

And when they had fallen asleep, behold, the Angel of God was sent to Karmin, and he awoke him and said unto him, "Leave all thy possessions and save thyself, for men have been commanded by Manasseh the King to cut off thy head.

Kebra Nagast 76:40

And by the Will of God these two handmaidens met each other before they had thrown the children into the river, and they talked together.

Kebra Nagast 76:52

And he came and overthrew Jerusalem by the Will of God, and he carried away captive the children of Israel, and he made them to wander in the town of Babylon with the grandchildren of Manasseh.

Kebra Nagast 76:54

And God abased him so that he might know Him, and He set his portion with the beasts of the field.

Kebra Nagast 77:4

And he did that which God hated, and he did not wish to raise up seed to his brother as his father Judah had commanded him.

Kebra Nagast 77:6

And when God saw his evil act He turned His face away from him and slew him.

Kebra Nagast 77:8

For I have a little son, and if God will let him grow up I will give him to her."

Kebra Nagast 77:19

And Judah said, "Leave ye [it]; the Will of God be done."

Kebra Nagast 78:2

When God made Abraham to depart from his father's country into the land of Karan (Harran), He made Lot to pass over into the land of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Kebra Nagast 78:3

And when God wished to blot out the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, He sent His Angels Michael and Gabriel to bring out Lot and to burn up the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah; and they destroyed them and brought out Lot with his children.

Kebra Nagast 78:5

Now the wrath of God came down on the city of Sodom [in the form of] a rain of fire from heaven, which burned up mountains, and hills, and stones, and earth.

Kebra Nagast 78:6

And lightnings, and forked lightnings, and peals of thunder came down mingled with the crashing of the wrath of God., and a cloud of fire which made the heat to emit smoke.

Kebra Nagast 78:9

And as for Lot, God made him to dwell in the mountains of Ararat.

Kebra Nagast 80:6

And how God gave him strength ye have heard in the Book of Judges.

Kebra Nagast 80:7

But he transgressed the commandment of God, and came and married a daughter of the uncircumcised Philistines.

Kebra Nagast 80:8

And because of this God was wroth, and He delivered him into the hands of men of the uncircumcised Philistines, and they blinded his eyes, and they made him act the buffoon in the house of their king.

Kebra Nagast 80:19

If our Lord Dagon will do a favour unto us that which is in thy belly shall be a son, who shall reverence our god Dagon and shall reign over us.

Kebra Nagast 81:3

This throne did not belong to thy father, and this city was not thy father's city; when the God of thy father hath let thee grow up thou shalt go to thy father's throne."

Kebra Nagast 82:1

And we could also inform you that when God had given unto Abraham glory and riches, he lacked a son.

Kebra Nagast 82:5

And he said, "I give thanks unto God that what He hath given unto me I have expended on my servants.

Kebra Nagast 82:14

And they wept and worshipped God, and they came into the great city of the King of Egypt.

Kebra Nagast 82:36

Go thou in to this my handmaiden whom Pharaoh gave unto me; peradventure God will give thee seed in her.

Kebra Nagast 82:39

And Abraham went in to `Agar, and she conceived by him, and she brought forth a son and called his name Ishmael, which is, being interpreted, "God hath heard me."

Kebra Nagast 82:40

And afterwards God gave Abraham seed from his wife Sarah and he begat Isaac.

Kebra Nagast 82:42

And Abraham offered up offerings to God and said, "Lord, what shall I do in respect of Ishmael, my son, my firstborn?

Kebra Nagast 82:45

And God said unto Abraham, "What Sarah saith is true; cast out the handmaiden with her son Ishmael.

Kebra Nagast 83:3

For as God sware He gave all kingdoms to the seed of Shem, and an exalted throne and dominion to the seed of Shem, even as his father Noah, by the word of God, blessed his son Shem, saying, "Be lord to thy brethren and reign over them."

Kebra Nagast 83:3

For as God sware He gave all kingdoms to the seed of Shem, and an exalted throne and dominion to the seed of Shem, even as his father Noah, by the word of God, blessed his son Shem, saying, "Be lord to thy brethren and reign over them."

Kebra Nagast 84:3

And she caused all this glorious news to be spread abroad, and she made a herald to go round about in all the country that was subject unto her, ordering the people to meet her son and more particularly the heavenly Zion, the Tabernacle of the God of Israel.

Kebra Nagast 85:2

And when the Queen saw this she gave thanks unto the God of Israel, and praised Him.

Kebra Nagast 87:4

And the hearts of the people shone at the sight of Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God, and the people of Ethiopia cast aside their idols, and they worshipped their Creator, the God Who had made them.