This tale begins with two women, who happen to be harlots, when they approach a king with their problem. The first woman explains that she and the other woman live in one house, and the other woman's child died the other night, and that she saw this woman take her child and give her the dead one. The other woman argues and the king asks for a sword. The king says he will solve this problem by cutting the child into two pieces; this causes the first woman to say that the other can have the child, if this will spare the child's life. The king sees that only the real mother would do such a thing, and the real mother receives the child.
             What would you have done? How would you have handled such a problem? King Solomon is a good king and a wise and powerful man because he is led by God. His decisions show that he has his trust in the lord. They also show that he is a wise and fair king. I am going to show you many different examples of how King Solomon is a great leader.
             First we can see that Solomon is a fair king. The two women who came to him were harlots, which means they would be two lower society, non-contributing people, and yet Solomon seeks to help them with their problem. Although Solomon does threaten to kill the child by cutting it in half, this is not because he doesn't care about the child's fate. King Solomon does this only because if these women are harlots then there are no witnesses, so then there is no other way to find out the truth about who is the child's mother than to scare it out of the true mother. Solomon also doesn't make this threat because the child is of a harlot, he makes this threat or resolution of cutting this child in half, because Solomon is wise enough to know that only the real mother would love the child enough to give it up to other women instead of having it killed. This shows that he looked at the woman as a mother and not just a harlot. This al...