queen of Sheba. Compare 2 Chronicles 9:1.
Sheba,. grandson of Cush, settled in Ethiopia (Genesis 10:7): i.e. Nubia and North Abyssinia, where female sovereigns were not unusual. Compare Acts 8:27.
heard. kept hearing. By the commercial intercourse of 1 Kings 9:26-28. Compare 2 Chronicles 8:17; 2 Chronicles 9:1. Note her seven steps: heard (1 Kings 10:1); came (1 Kings 10:2); communed (1 Kings 10:2); saw (1 Kings 10:4); said (1 Kings 10:6); gave (1 Kings 10:10); returned (1 Kings 10:13).
fame. report.
hard. abstruse, or difficult.