What’s your favourite rags-to-riches story?

Ever since Cinderella there have been remarkable stories of nobodies becoming world-famous somebodies.

Before King David, Jerusalem was an unknown little town in the middle of nowhere, but under King Solomon, it became a global hub of wealth and wisdom.

Nowhere more is this seen than the fascination in Solomon and Jerusalem by the Queen of Sheba, in chapter 10 of 1 Kings.

In the first verse we read that, “When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame, which brought honour to the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions.”