--- title: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: King Solomon, famous for his wisdom, appears in the Bible, in th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one st… # Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn Lesson 101 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/0/) — King Solomon, famous for his wisdom, appears in the Bible, in the Qur'an and in the stories of many peoples. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/1/) — One of the best-loved tales is the visit of the Queen of Sheba, a rich queen from far away who came to test him with hard questions. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/2/) — The Bible, the Qur'an and the old books of Ethiopia each tell the visit in their own way, and later storytellers added legends of a magic ring and of jinn who obeyed the king. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/3/) — Kipling borrowed all of this for his last Just So Story, where Suleiman-bin-Daoud and his queen Balkis help a boasting little Butterfly. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/4/) — Historians cannot check every part: the kingdom of Saba in Yemen was real and grew rich from incense, but no record outside these books tells of the visit. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/5/) — We can still learn from the story, as from any great story: about wisdom, about pride, and about helping someone without shaming them. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/6/) — The Bible (1 Kings 10) says the Queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame and came to Jerusalem with camels carrying spices, gold and precious stones, to test him with hard questions. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/8/) — In the Qur'an (the chapter called «The Ant») Solomon understands the speech of birds and ants; a bird called the hoopoe brings him news of a queen of Saba whose people worship the sun, and in the end she turns to God together with Solomon. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/9/) — Muslim tradition names the queen Bilqis, which Kipling spells Balkis; in Ethiopia's old book «The Glory of the Kings» she is called Makeda, and her son with Solomon, Menelik, becomes the first king of Ethiopia. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/10/) — Ethiopia's emperors claimed to come from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba right up to the last emperor, Haile Selassie, whose reign ended in 1974. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/11/) — Saba was a real kingdom in what is now Yemen, rich from trading frankincense and myrrh, sweet-smelling tree resins burned in temples; some people think Sheba included lands across the Red Sea in Ethiopia too. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/15/) — In Kipling's tale the Butterfly boasts to his wife that if he stamps his foot Suleiman's palace will vanish, and she tests him by telling him to do it; Balkis helps so that his wife believes him and he is not shamed, he never boasts again, and Suleiman laughs but keeps the secret: wise people can stop a boast without shaming the boaster. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/17/) — People still say «I felt like the Queen of Sheba» for feeling rich and splendid, and «a Solomon» for a very wise judge. - ← previous: [Olympiad practice: the hardest cases](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/) - next →: [Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)