David appears in these verses as a prophet given a Book, to whom Allah granted knowledge and kingship and whom He made a successor on earth. They mention the angels who climbed the wall of his sanctuary, the mountains and birds glorifying Allah with him, iron made soft for him to craft coats of mail, his killing of Goliath, and his son Solomon, a prophet like him.
Verses gathered from a topical index of the Quran, in Mushaf order; every verse is quoted in full.
So they defeated them by permission of Allāh, and David killed Goliath, and Allāh gave him the kingship and wisdom [i.e., prophethood] and taught him from that which He willed. And if it were not for Allāh checking [some] people by means of others, the earth would have been corrupted, but Allāh is the possessor of bounty for the worlds.
