Solomon Judges Between Two Mothersby emmanuel_higgins

1 Kings 3:16

Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

The case came before Solomon early in his reign. The verse introduces the dispute in which he displayed wisdom united with sympathy. That union was shown in restoring a helpless infant child, a helpless baby, to its mother, to its true mother, by wise and kindly sympathetic action.