Section 56
the Giving of the Gift And when Tsadoq the Kohen returned to Shəlomah the King he found him sorrowful. And the King answered and said to Tsadoq the Kohen, “ When the Queen came there appeared to me by night this vision: It Of the Return of Tsadoq the Kohen seemed as if I were standing in the chamber of Yerushalayim, and the sun came down from heaven into the land of Yehudah, and lighted it up with great splendour. And having tarried a time it went down and lighted up the country of Ethiopia, and it did not return to the land of Yehudah. And again the sun came down from heaven to the country of Yehudah, and lighted it up more brilliantly than it did the first time; but the beney Yisra'el paid no heed to it, and they wished to extinguish its light. And it rose below the earth in a place where it was not expected, and it illumined the country of Rom, and the country of Ethiopia, and afterwards all those who believed on it.” And Tsadoq the Kohen answered and said to him, “ O my Yahuah, why did you not tell me before that you hadst seen a vision of this kind? you makest my knees to tremble. Woe be to us, if our sons have carried off our Lady, the qodesh, heavenly Tsiyon, the Tabot of the Torah of Elohim! ” And the King answered and said to him, a Our wisdom is forgotten and our understanding is buried. Verily the sun that appeared to me long ago when I was sleeping with the Queen of Ethiopia was the symbol of the qodesh Tsiyon. But tell me: yesterday when you did take off the splendid covering that was lying upon Tsiyon, did you not make certain that Tsiyon was [there]? ” And Tsadoq the Kohen answered and said, “ I did not, Yahuah; it had three coverings over it, and I took off the outermost, and dressed Tsiyon in the covering which you did give me, and I brought [the other] to you.” And the King said to Tsadoq, “ Go quickly and look at our Lady and examine her closely.” And Tsadoq the Kohen took the keys, and went and opened the house of the sanctuary, and he examined [the place] quickly, and he found there nothing except the wooden boards which Azaryahu had fastened together and had made to resemble the sides of the pedestal of Tsiyon.