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Queen of the South (biblical reference)

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Queen of the South (Greek: βασίλισσα νότου, basilissa notou) is an alternative title for the Queen of Sheba, used in two passages in the New Testament, where Jesus said:

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it (or in Luke: with the men of this generation and condemn them), for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

Occasionally, biblical translators have used the phrase "a Queen of the South", the Greek having no article, but this has been criticized as incorrect.

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