been to Jerusalem to worship God (perhaps it is too much to describe him as having been there “on a pilgrimage,” so NEB, though the identical expression in 24:11 may support this translation). Candace (transliterated as Kandake in the NEB) is not the name of the queen but rather the title of the queens of Ethiopia, as Pharaoh was the title of the kings of Egypt. An equivalent of treasury may be “valuable possessions,” “the money of the kingdom,” or “the gold and silver which belonged to the queen.”