The vicissitudinous life of Solomon’s pulchritudinous wife
“King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country”. I Kings 10:13 Here we attempt to retrace the life-journey and career of this most remarkable of women. Caution : This story involves rape, violence, murder, conspiracies, treason, revolts, and suicide. Her Beginnings “When King David was very old, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. So his attendants said to him, ‘Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm’. Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The woman was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no sexual relations with her”. I Kings