Jesus references Solomon directly, more than once, and it's worth tracing what He does with him. "The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here" (Matthew 12:42). Notice the comparison isn't dismissive of Solomon — it takes his wisdom completely seriously as the highest human standard available, and then claims something greater is standing in front of the crowd Jesus is addressing. Jesus also points to Solomon's glory directly in a different register entirely — "the lilies of the field... Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these" (Matthew 6:28–29) — using the wealthiest, most magnificently dressed king in Israel's history as the baseline for ordinary, unremarkable beauty God provides for free. Both references assume the crowd already knows exactly how impressive Solomon was, and both use that shared knowledge to point toward someone the text claims is greater still.
Paul, writing to the Corinthians about the Temple Solomon built, reaches for a different application entirely: "know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" (1 Corinthians 3:16). The glory-cloud that once filled a physical building in Jerusalem, in Paul's reading, now fills something Solomon himself could never have built with cedar and gold. What took Solomon seven years, gold he didn't have to earn, and craftsmen borrowed from a foreign king becomes, in the New Testament's own reading of it, a preview of something the Spirit does directly, in ordinary people, without a single stone.