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How SOLOMON Rose up to Slay them     Thus spake King SOLOMON.
And the King rose up in wrath and set out to pursue [the men of
ETHIOPIA]. And when the King, and his nobles, and his mighty men
of war rose up (i.e., had set out), the elders of ISRAEL, and
the widows, and the virgins gathered together in the house of
God, and they wept for ZION, for the Tabernacle of the Law of
God had been taken away p. 87 from them. Now after ZADOK had
remained [senseless] for a season, his heart returned to him.
And then the King commanded that the soldiers should go forth on
the right hand and on the left, on the chance that some of the
[fugitives] might turn aside through fear of the theft. And the
King himself rose up and followed the track of the road of the
men of ETHIOPIA, and he sent out mounted horsemen, so that they
might [ride on before him and] find out where they were, and
might return and bring him news [of them]. And the horsemen
journeyed on and ca