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 and it shows. His decisions show that he has his trust in the lord. They also show that he is a wise and a fair king, because of it. At the end of the story it says, "All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, for they saw the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.
             The first thing we can look at to prove that King Solomon was a good leader is that his people feared him. In order for a king to be great, powerful, and respected by his people, they must fear him. If a king is a push-over or if he is too nice, then his laws will not be honored, and his judgments not sought or honored. Another thing that added to the king's might was the fact that the people "saw the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment." People also fear the wrath of God, and nobody in their right mind argues with His judgment, therefore this gave Solomon more control and enabled him to make and enforce great decisions. So we can see that "they" only feared Solomon because he was a great King.
             Second we can see that Solomon is a fair king. The two women who came to him were harlots, which would be two lower society, non-contributing people, and yet Solomon seeks to help them out. Although Solomon threatens to kill the child by cutting it in half, this is only, because if these women are harlots then there are no witnesses or any other way to solve this dispute. Solomon doesn't make this threat, because of a lack of caring or the child's fate, even though it is a child of a harlot, he makes this treat 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 over having it killed. This shows that he looked at the...