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Ark of the Covenant
King Solomon also arranged for a replica of the Ark of the Covenant to be made to be taken back with Dawit so as to spread the worship of the one true God in his realm. However, the Kibre Negest relates that the son of Zadok the High Priest, when told he was to accompany a replica ark to a foreign land, was very unhappy. This is probably unsurprising as this man had been raised to succeed his father as High Priest in service before the true Ark and not a mere replica. Therefore, on the night before their departure, the son of Zadok snuck into the Temple and stole the true Ark of the Covenant, replacing it with the replica. By the time the switch was noticed, Dawit and his entourage were long gone. The Ark was kept on an Island on lake Tana, called Tana Kirkos where there is a small monastery today, but it eventually was moved to Axum where it is kept at the Cathedral Shrine of St. Mary of Zion.
The Kings of Kings
Dawit would eventually
inherit his mother's throne, but would ascend it not as King of Sheba,
but as Emperor Menelik I, the first King of Kings (Niguse Negest)of Ethiopia.
The dynasty he would establish would rule the country with a few notable
interruptions until the revolution of 1974. The Imperial Family of Ethiopia
is often refered to as the Solomonic Dynasty, or the House of Solomon
(Bete Solomon) for this reason.
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