Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 10:1

AND when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, concerning the Name of the LORD , she came to prove him with hard questions .

Either, First, Of Aethiopia, as that People by constant Tradition from their Ancestors affirm, which also was truly in the ends of the earth, whence she came, Matt. 12. 42. Or rather, Secondly, Of that part of Arabia, called Sabaea, which was at a great distance from Ierusalem, and really in the ends of the earth, and bordering upon the Southern Sea; for there, much more than in Ethiopia, were the Commodities which she brought, v. 2, 10. Howsoever, this is here said for her commendation, That being a Woman, and a Queen, and living at great ease, and in such remote parts, she was willing to take so long and chargeable a Journey to improve her self in knowledge, and that of Divine things, as is here implied.

i. e. Concerning the great Work which he had done for the Name, i. e. the Honour, and Service, and Worship of the Lord, as it is expressed chap. 8. 17. and elsewhere. Or, concerning God; the Name of God being oft put for God, as hath been noted before, concerning his deep knowledge in the things of God. For it is very probable, that she had, as also had divers other Heathens, some knowledge of the True God, and an earnest desire to know more of the Being, and Nature, and Worship of God, wherein the Heathens were generally at a great los[illegible: 1+ letters], and which many of them desired and endeavoured to understand. Or, concerning the great things which God had done for him, especially in giving him such incomparable Wisdom, and that in an extraordinary manner.

Concerning Natural, and Civil, and especially, concerning Divine things, about which there are, and ever were the hardest questions.

Marginal references: 2 Chr. 9. 1. Matth. 12▪ 4[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ Luk. 11. 31.