Wisdom Brings Judgement

This is the story in  1 Kings 3:16-28 where two women are claiming to be the mother of a single child.    Solomon orders that the child be cut in two and each mother would receive half of the child, knowing that the child’s real mother would give up her child so as to keep it alive.

And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), 1 Ki 3:28.

True wisdom brings about real justice.