BRAGADAYJAH 991
Solomon’s Wise Judgment
Then there came two women before King Solomon, and the one
complained against the other and said that she and the other woman were living
together, and she delivered of a child, and that three days later the other
woman had a child and there was no one living house. And the second woman’s
child died in the night because she overlaid it, and she got up in the night
and exchanged her dead child for hers. And laid her dead child in my arms and
clutching my child to her bosom. The first complainant said that when she awoke
in the midnight to give her child suck, she discovered the dead child, and when
I looked at the dead child in the light of the morning she discovered that the
dead child was not the child she brought into the world. But the other woman
claimed that the living child was hers and the dead child was mine. Of course
the other woman contended that the live child was hers. So King Solomon had a dilemma.
And he said to the women you both are claiming that the live child is you and
the dead child to the other. Therefore said the king, “Bring me a sword.” And
they brought him a sword. Then the king ordered that the child be slain and
divided in two, and a half given to each of the two woman. Then the bowels of
the woman whose child it was said, “O my lord give my opponent the living child
and in no way slay my son.” But the other said, “Let it be neither mine nor
thine but divide it.” Then the king answered and said, “Give her the living
child and do not slay it, for she is the mother.” And all Israel heard the
judgement which the king gave and feared the king for they saw the wisdom of
God was with him to do justice.
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