Charles Ellicott Commentary Matthew 12:42

"The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here." — Matthew 12:42 (ASV)

The queen of the south —Literally, a queen of the south, as before, men of Nineveh, because the Greek has no article. Rhetorically, the absence of the article is in this case more emphatic than its presence.