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    King Solomon Quiz — Questions and Answers

    All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.

    1. Q1.Who were Solomon's parents?

      • A. Saul and Ahinoam
      • B. David and Bathsheba ✓
      • C. David and Abigail
      • D. Jesse and Nitzevet

      Answer: David and Bathsheba

      David comforted Bathsheba his wife… and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon.

      Read 2 Samuel 12:24 (KJV)

    2. Q2.What did Solomon ask of God in a dream at Gibeon?

      • A. Long life
      • B. Wealth
      • C. An understanding heart ✓
      • D. Victory over enemies

      Answer: An understanding heart

      Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people.

      Read 1 Kings 3:9 (KJV)

    3. Q3.What famous judgment did Solomon make between two women?

      • A. A coat divided
      • B. A child to be divided with a sword ✓
      • C. A field disputed
      • D. A sheep claimed

      Answer: A child to be divided with a sword

      Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

      Read 1 Kings 3:25 (KJV)

    4. Q4.What did Solomon build for the LORD in Jerusalem?

      • A. A palace
      • B. The temple ✓
      • C. A tower
      • D. An ark

      Answer: The temple

      And Solomon built the house, and finished it.

      Read 1 Kings 6:14 (KJV)

    5. Q5.How many years did it take to build the temple?

      • A. 3
      • B. 7 ✓
      • C. 12
      • D. 40

      Answer: 7

      In seven years was he in building it.

      Read 1 Kings 6:38 (KJV)

    6. Q6.Which foreign queen visited Solomon to test him with hard questions?

      • A. The Queen of Egypt
      • B. The Queen of Sheba ✓
      • C. Queen Esther
      • D. Queen Jezebel

      Answer: The Queen of Sheba

      When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon… she came to prove him.

      Read 1 Kings 10:1 (KJV)

    7. Q7.How many wives did Solomon have?

      • A. 12
      • B. 70
      • C. 300
      • D. 700 ✓

      Answer: 700

      He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines.

      Read 1 Kings 11:3 (KJV)

    8. Q8.What turned Solomon's heart away from the LORD?

      • A. Wealth
      • B. His foreign wives and their gods ✓
      • C. Pride in the temple
      • D. Battles with Edom

      Answer: His foreign wives and their gods

      His wives turned away his heart after other gods.

      Read 1 Kings 11:4 (KJV)

    9. Q9.Which book of wisdom begins, 'Vanity of vanities'?

      • A. Proverbs
      • B. Job
      • C. Ecclesiastes ✓
      • D. Song of Solomon

      Answer: Ecclesiastes

      Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher.

      Read Ecclesiastes 1:2 (KJV)

    10. Q10.Who succeeded Solomon as king?

      • A. Jeroboam
      • B. Rehoboam ✓
      • C. Abijam
      • D. Asa

      Answer: Rehoboam

      And Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

      Read 1 Kings 11:43 (KJV)