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The queen of Sheba visits Solomon Placed by sequence — no public-domain source dates this
True span 4004 BC – AD 100
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How we know the date Told among the years of Solomon's glory; the sources consulted give the visit no year. None of the public-domain chronologies consulted (ISBE, Easton's, Ussher) gives this event a year; it is placed here by its order in the narrative.
Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation
Placed by sequence — no public-domain source dates this. The event keeps its place in the sequence of the narrative, and no year is shown for it.
Sources Gospel Companion · In-house