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Sheba was a son of Bichri, of the family of Becher, the son of Benjamin, and thus of the tribe of King Saul. When David returned to Jerusalem after the defeat of Absalom , strife arose between the ten tribes and the Tribe of Judah , because the latter took the lead in bringing back the king.
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Genealogy_of_the_kings_of_Israel_and_Judah.png licensed with PD-self . 2011-11-01T21:13:22Z LisaLiel 920x800 (54510 Bytes) Modified colors for ease of reading and for the benefit of the color blind, but kept the removal of Sheba as a king of Israel.
Sheba fled to Abel Beth Maacah, pursued by Joab and his army. Setting up a siege at the town, Joab threatened to destroy it, when the local "wise woman" (possibly an oracle) informed him that the city was loyal to David, calling it "a city and a mother in Israel" (2 Samuel 20:19) and arranged to have the rebel who took refuge there beheaded ...
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' Daughter of Sheba ' or ' Daughter of the Oath ') [1] was an Israelite queen consort. According to the Hebrew Bible, she was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, with whom she had all of her five children. Her status as the mother of Solomon, who succeeded David as monarch, made her the Gebirah (גְּבִירָה) of the Kingdom ...
Jesse (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ s i / JESS-ee) [3] or Yishai (Hebrew: יִשַׁי – Yīšay, [a] in pausa Hebrew: יִשָׁי – Yīšāy, meaning "King" or "God's gift"; Syriac: ܐܝܫܝ – Eshai; Greek: Ἰεσσαί – Iessaí; Latin: Issai, Isai, Jesse); (Arabic: إيشا, romanized: ʾīshā) is a figure described in the Hebrew Bible as the father of David, who became the king of the Israelites.
Sheba, [a] or Saba, [b] was an ancient South Arabian kingdom in modern-day Yemen [3] whose inhabitants were known as the Sabaeans [c] or the tribe of Sabaʾ which, for much of the 1st millennium BCE, were indissociable from the kingdom itself. [4]
Joktan's sons in the order provided in Genesis 10:26–29, were Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. In Pseudo-Philo 's account (ca. 70), Joktan was first made prince over the children of Shem , just as Nimrod and Phenech were princes over the children of Ham and Japheth ...