The "Song of Songs, which is Solomon's" contributes a few lines of poetry to the book, and a ritualistic service which is celebrated in the temple finds its original text in the opening verses of Psalms lxvii and cxvii, but with this I have enumerated all that the opera owes to the Bible.
"A Second Book of Operas"
Henry Edward Krehbiel
256. Parliamentary Papers, 1860, lxvii.
"History of Modern Europe 1792-1878"
C. A. Fyffe
Foonote 86 appears on page lxvii of the text, but there is no corresponding marker on the page.
"The Commercial Restraints of Ireland"
John Hely Hutchinson