THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON

“The Judgment of Solomon” reminds us about the wisest judgment of the great king of Israel, 'Solomon'. It's a story about two ill-reputed women who sought king's verdict for their claims on being mother of a child. They were alone; no one else was with them in the house. The two single women lived together in an apartment and each bore a child, with difference of three days. Accidentally, one of the mothers accidentally smothered her child during sleep and exchanged dead against the living child of her. The other mother noticed this and it comes to the dispute. It was the true or real mother who presented the plea before the king first. She told the king that the second woman had exchanged her dead child with her alive son during the middle of the night. The second women retorted “No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours.” It was obvious there was no witness. Nobody had seen the babies before because the women lived in a deserted house. The king or the people could not have had the faintest idea who the real mother was. Both women appeared to have equal amount of determination to get the living son. But one thing was clear; only one of them was its real mother. The wise king then ordered “Bring me a sword.” So they brought a sword for the king. He then gave an order: “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.” (Kings 3:16-28). At this point, almost all of the audience was moved by the apparently unwise decision by the king. “How could the king do this?”, they should have thought. 'One of the woman is a complete liar, obviously, and the other ...