Solomonic Dynasty

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Solomonic Dynasty

GATHERING HER NOBLES into the inner court of the Palace, Makeda said: "Swear by the heavenly Zion that in the future you won't allow any queen to ascend this throne and that no one except the male seed of my son, Ibna Hakim, the son of Solomon, will be worthy of it"
They agreed with a great shout.
In the following days, she appointed Elyas the chief of priests and Azariah the chief of deacons and with Ibna Hakim's assistance a similar administration as to the one in Jerusalem was set up.

Finally, Makeda turned over her kingdom to her son with these words, "Take the kingdom, I've given to you. I have made king whom God has made king, and I have chosen him whom God has chosen as the keeper of His pavilion. I'm well pleased with him whom God has been pleased with him whom God has been pleased to make the envoy of the Tabernacle of His Covenant and His Law. I have magnified him whom God has magnified and the director of his widows and I've honored him whom God has honored as the giver of food to orphans."
Ibna Hakim rose to his feet and praised Makeda and then said: "Please, pray for me, mother, that we'll respect the habitation of the Glory of God and those that come after me will obey His will and do what's right in respect of the Ark then we'll become chosen men and no one will be able to treat us evilly in the mountain of His holiness while His habitation is us.
"Also, I know God is with us because He sent the mighty angel, Michael, who directed us here and he'll be with us forever.

Ibna Hakim: And we've brought the whole Law of the kingdom and the commandment of God which Zadok declared to us when he anointed me with the oil of sovereignity in the Temple, the horn of oil, which is the unction of priesthood and royalty, being in his hand. And he did what was written in the Law and we were anointed along with Azariah to the priesthood and Elymas as the keeper of Zion and the Ear of the King in every path of righteousness. Zadok told me that I should listen to their advice about everything.

Then Elymas and Azariah brought Zadok's writing and read it to Makeda.
Then she spoke to the two advisers, saying, "Protect him and teach him the path of the kingdom of God and honor our Lady Zion, for you are the guardians of the Ark."
In the following days, Azariah issued the same dietary laws to his new nation that were applicable in Israel.

Azariah ordered the Jubilee trumpets to be blown and for the Ethiopians to be gathered around the mountain of Debra Makeda, where the Ark was now resting inside a tent.
"Let us go to Zion and there we will make new the kingdom of our lord, David," Azariah said.
There he anointed Ibna Hakim with the throne name of Menelik. Afterwards they blew horns and pipes and trumpets and beat drums with singing, dancing and displays of jousting and horsemanship.
The boundaries of the new kingdom began on the east at the city of Gaza in the land of Judah and along the coastline to Leba and Saba and down to Bisis and Asnet with its boundary the Sea of Blacks and Naked Men and towards Mount Kebereneyon into the Sea of Darkness, the place where the sun sets. The border also extended to Feneel and Lasifala and then towards the Sea of India.