_We subjected_ unto Solomon the wind, which travelled in the morning (_unto the period when the sun began to decline_) _the distance of_ a month’s _journey_, and in the evening _from the commencement of the declining of the sun into its setting_ a month’s _journey_. And We made the fountain of molten brass to flow for him _three days with their nights_ [in every month], _as water floweth;[319] and the people worked until the day_ [of its flowing], _with that which had been given into Solomon_. And of the jinn [were] those who worked in his presence, by the will of his Lord; and such of them as swerved from _obedience to_ Our command We will cause to taste of the punishment of hell _in the world to come_ (_or, as it is said by some, We cause to taste of its punishment in the present world, an angel beating them with a scourge from hell, the stripe of which burneth them_). They made for him whatever he pleased, of lofty halls (_with steps whereby to ascend to them_), and images (_for they were not forbidden by his law_[320]), and large dishes, like great tanks for watering camels, _around each of which assembled a thousand men, eating from it_, and cooking-pots standing firmly _on their legs, cut out from the mountains in El-Yemen, and to which they ascended by ladders_. _And We said_, Work, O family of David, _in the service of God_, with thanksgiving _unto Him for what He hath given you_:—but few of My servants are the thankful. And when We decreed that he (_namely, Solomon_) should die, _and he died, and remained standing, and leaning upon his staff for a year, dead, the jinn meanwhile performing those difficult works as they were accustomed to do, not knowing of his death, until the worm ate his staff, whereupon he fell down_, nothing showed them his death but the eating reptile (_the worm_) that ate his staff.[321] And when he fell down, the jinn plainly perceived that if they had known things unseen (_of which things was the death of Solomon_), they had not continued in the ignominious affliction (_that is, in their difficult works_), _imagining that he was alive, inconsistently with their opinion that they knew things unseen. And that the period was a year was known by calculating what the worm had eaten of his staff since his death in each day and night or other space of time._ (xxxiv. 11-13.) _JONAH._