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• Queen of Sheba

  [People]

  The Queen of Sheba was a foreign queen who, having heard reports of Solomon's wisdom, came to Jerusalem and tested him with hard questions. Jesus called her "the queen of the south" and spoke of her as a witness at the judgment.

• Queen of Heaven

  [Bible]

  The Queen of Heaven is a title used in the Book of Jeremiah for a goddess whom the people of Judah worshiped by burning incense and offering cakes. Jeremiah condemned this worship as idolatry and a departure from God.

• Queen Mother

  [Bible]

  The queen mother is a biblical term for a woman who, as the mother of the king, held an official position at the royal court. It is best known from the account of King Asa of Judah removing his mother Maachah from this position.

• Esther (Queen of Persia)

  [People]

  Esther is the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Esther. She became the queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus and saved the Jews when Haman's scheme threatened them with annihilation.

• Tahpenes

  [People]

  Tahpenes was the queen of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, around the time of David and Solomon. She is mentioned twice in 1 Kings 11 as the sister-in-law of Hadad the Edomite.

• Candace

  [People]

  Candace is the "queen of the Ethiopians" mentioned in Acts 8. An official in charge of her treasury was baptized by Philip. A widely known view holds that the name was a title of the queens of the ancient Nubian kingdom rather than a personal name.

• Vashti

  [People]

  Vashti was the queen of Ahasuerus, king of Persia, who was deposed after refusing the king's summons. Her removal opened the way for Esther to become queen. She appears in Esther 1–2 in the Old Testament.

• 1 Kings 10

  [Bible]

  1 Kings 10 records the visit of the Queen of Sheba, who came to Solomon, saw his wisdom and wealth, and praised the LORD. The chapter also describes the gold, trade, and military strength of Solomon's kingdom.

• 2 Chronicles 9

  [Bible]

  Second Chronicles 9 recounts the visit of the Queen of Sheba, who came to Solomon and marveled at his wisdom. It describes Solomon's wealth and glory and closes the account of Solomon with his forty-year reign and death.

• Esther 1

  [Bible]

  The first chapter of the Book of Esther, in which King Ahasuerus of Persia holds a great feast in the palace at Shushan and issues a decree deposing Queen Vashti after she refuses his summons.

• Sheba

  [Bible]

  Sheba is the name of a land in Arabia and of its people in the Old Testament. It is portrayed as a wealthy, distant land to the south that traded in gold and frankincense. It is best known as the kingdom of the Queen of Sheba, who visited Solomon.

• Jeremiah 44

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 44 is the chapter in which Jeremiah rebukes the people of Judah who had gone down to Egypt for burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pronounces judgment on those who refuse to listen.

• Talent

  [Bible]

  The talent was the largest unit of weight in the Bible, used for gold, silver, and other metals. Through the Parable of the Talents in the New Testament, the word has also come to be widely used for the abilities or gifts that God entrusts to people.

• 1 Kings 11

  [Bible]

  First Kings 11 recounts how Solomon, led astray by his foreign wives, served other gods and provoked the Lord's anger. Hadad, Rezon, and Jeroboam rise up as adversaries, the division of the kingdom is foretold, and Solomon dies.

• Ethiopian Eunuch

  [People]

  The Ethiopian eunuch is the treasury official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who appears in Acts 8. After Philip the evangelist explained a passage from Isaiah to him and proclaimed the gospel of Jesus, he was baptized.

• Esther 2

  [Bible]

  Esther 2 recounts how, after the deposition of Queen Vashti, King Ahasuerus seeks a new queen and the Jewish woman Esther is chosen, and how Mordecai exposes a plot against the king, a deed recorded in the royal chronicles.

• Ezekiel 16

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 16 portrays Jerusalem as an infant abandoned in an open field. The LORD takes her into covenant and raises her to the rank of queen, but she becomes an unfaithful wife. Through this image the chapter pronounces judgment on Jerusalem's idolatry. It closes with God's promise to establish an everlasting covenant and restore her.

• Esther

  [Bible]

  Esther is a book of the Old Testament. In ten chapters it tells the story of Esther, a Jewish queen at the Persian court who averted the threatened annihilation of her people.

• Acts 8:32–35

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage Philip explains to an Ethiopian eunuch, who was reading the passage in Isaiah 53 about the one "led as a sheep to the slaughter," that the words refer to Jesus. Because it is a leading text identifying the "Suffering Servant" of Isaiah 53 with Jesus, it is frequently cited and discussed.

• Athaliah

  [People]

  Athaliah was a queen of Judah from the house of Ahab, king of northern Israel. She became the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah, and after the death of her son Ahaziah she killed the royal family and ruled Judah for about six years.