Matthew 12:42 → 1 Kings 10:1

"Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon... she came to test him with difficult questions" (1 Kgs 10:1); Jesus invokes her journey as a witness for the prosecution: "The Queen of the South... came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here" (Mt 12:42). Jesus himself supplies the typological escalation — Solomon, the Davidic king whose God-given wisdom drew the Gentile world to Jerusalem (1 Kgs 10:24), prefigures the greater Son of David in whom "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" are hidden (Col 2:3). The a fortiori cuts against "this generation": a Gentile queen crossed the world on the strength of a rumor, while Israel's leaders demand signs from incarnate Wisdom standing among them — so she will rise at the judgment as evidence that revelation was sufficient and rejection inexcusable. The saying has a second verbal leg in the same pericope, at 1 Kings 10:7, where the queen confesses, "Indeed, not even half was told to me. Your wisdom and prosperity have far exceeded the report I heard." In the Greek, Jesus' saying and LXX 1 Kings 10:7 share wisdom (σοφία, G4678), hearing (ἀκούω, G191), the land or earth (γῆ, G1093) and the pointing word ἰδού (G2400): the queen's ἰδού over a report that fell short of Solomon is answered by Jesus' ἰδού over One greater than Solomon. The pairing also carries the Wisdom longitudinal theme toward its terminus: the wisdom that once drew the nations to Solomon's court now goes out in person to seek them.