Solomon's Dominion

• 1 Kings 1:1-2:46

Adonijah attempts to take the throne; Bathsheba and Nathan intervene, David orders Solomon anointed, and rivals are later removed.

• Q 27:15-16
• Q 38:30

Solomon inherits David and is praised as an excellent servant; no Adonijah conspiracy, Bathsheba intervention, public anointing, or purge is narrated.

• 1 Kings 3:4-15
• 2 Chronicles 1:7-12

At Gibeon Solomon asks for an understanding heart to judge, and God adds wealth and honor.

• Q 21:78-79
• Q 27:15
• Q 38:35

God grants David and Solomon knowledge and correct judgment; Q 38 records Solomon asking forgiveness and a unique kingdom, not the Gibeon dream request.

• 1 Kings 3:16-28

Solomon resolves two women's dispute over a living child by proposing to divide the child.

• Q 21:78-79

David and Solomon judge a field damaged by sheep, and God gives Solomon understanding of that case; the two mothers and sword test are absent.

• 1 Kings 1:1-11:43

The Bible does not give Solomon command over wind for rapid travel.

• Q 21:81
• Q 34:12
• Q 38:36

The wind is subjected to Solomon, traveling by his command over great distances.

• 1 Kings 5:1-18
• 1 Kings 9:15-23
• 2 Chronicles 2:1-18

Solomon's projects use conscripted Israelites, resident foreigners, craftsmen, and Tyrian workers; no jinn workforce is named.

• Q 21:82
• Q 34:12-13
• Q 38:37-38

Jinn and devils dive, build sanctuaries, statues, basins, and cauldrons, and are restrained if they deviate.

• 1 Kings 7:13-47
• 2 Chronicles 4:11-18

Hiram's craftsman casts bronze furnishings in clay ground near the Jordan from supplied metal.

• Q 34:12

A fountain of molten copper flows for Solomon by divine provision.

• 1 Kings 5:1-9:9
• 2 Chronicles 2:1-7:22

The temple receives detailed dimensions, furnishings, priestly dedication, ark placement, sacrifice, and Solomon's prayer that heaven cannot contain God.

• Q 34:12-13

Jinn make sanctuaries and works for Solomon, but these passages do not narrate the Jerusalem temple plan, ark installation, priesthood, dedication sacrifices, or prayer.

• 1 Kings 4:26
• 1 Kings 10:26-29

Solomon accumulates chariots and horses and imports them from Egypt and Kue.

• Q 38:31-33

Fine standing horses are displayed at evening; Solomon says he preferred the love of good things over remembrance of his Lord until the sun disappeared, has the horses returned, and then strikes their legs and necks.

• 1 Kings 1:1-11:43

No body is placed on Solomon's throne as a divine test followed by repentance.

• Q 38:34-35

Solomon is tested when a body is placed on his throne; he turns to God and asks for forgiveness and unmatched dominion. The body is not identified.

• 1 Kings 11:1-13

Kings condemns Solomon's later idolatry but does not accuse him of teaching magic.

• Q 2:102

The Qur'an explicitly says Solomon did not disbelieve; devils disbelieved by teaching magic and material associated with Babylon.

• 1 Kings 11:1-40

Solomon's many foreign wives turn his heart toward other gods; God announces the kingdom's division and raises adversaries.

• Q 38:30-40

The dominion passages praise Solomon's devotion and repentance and do not narrate foreign wives, idol shrines, adversaries, or divine judgment dividing the kingdom.

• 1 Kings 11:41-43
• 2 Chronicles 9:29-31

Solomon dies after forty years of rule, is buried in David's city, and Rehoboam succeeds him.

• Q 34:14

After Solomon’s death, nothing indicates his death to the jinn until a creature eats his staff; when he falls, the jinn realize that they did not know the unseen.