所罗门王与雪芭女王之间的故事，是圣经电影经常拍摄的题材。大导演金．维多执导的这个版本只是中规中矩，因男主角泰隆．鲍华在演出中途去世，乃由尤．伯连纳取代重拍，细心的观众或许可以看到所罗门王在近景和远景之中会出现不同的体型。剧情描述以色列王子所罗门王与弟弟阿多奈贾正准备进攻埃及时，雪芭女王前来离间，一方面用美色勾引所罗门，另一方面让阿多奈贾意图谋夺大卫王病逝后遗下的皇位。两兄弟为此反目，上帝亦以神力毁坏所罗门的神庙来表示他的愤怒。

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Kiryath-Jearim (or Kiryat Ya’arim), converted to the site of a Catholic convent, where, according to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was kept for at least twenty years before being brought to Jerusalem by King David, father of King Solomon, who would eventually build the Holy of Holies inside the First Temple to house it.

An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, an unproven event that is not mentioned by Titus Flavius Josephus, the main historian of that period.

In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbulence due to the actions of the corrupt Roman governors and the internal struggles, both religious and political, between Jewish factions, events that soon lead to the uprising of the population and a cruel war that lasts several years and causes thousands of deaths, a catastrophe described in detail by the Romanized Jewish historian Titus Flavius Josephus.