The jealous rage of a woman and a lack of fear of what a king could do caused a women to try and take another woman’s baby. One of the hardest things women go through is a loss of a child, because not only does it effect one’s hormone’s it effects one’s psychology. Someone women have postpartum depression after giving birth to the point they could kill a child. I had two mother’s cats with four kittens a piece once. They would steal each others kittens if they heard the kittens crying. The mother instinct to hold even when a child is not your own is strong. Yet psychology the women who lost her child was jealous of her friend and took what belong not to her. The real mother would do anything to protect her living baby even if it meant to loose the baby to someone else.

Moses was born to a women who loved her son, but did everything he could to protect him. The princess found the baby boy and was smitten with him. The king would honor his daughter with allowing her to keep the baby, not realizing this one little boy would cause the fall of Egypt with the removal of the Hebrew slaves from the land of Egypt. The hardest thing the Hebrew mother did was allow the princess to take her son, but he was protected by the king. One has to wonder did Solomon come from the ancient history of his people. The real mother will to do anything to save her child’s life. As the king sat on his throne looking at two harlots and one baby, what would he do to determine who the mother is sounds cruel until one realizes the jealousy of the women who had lost her baby. The women had lost her baby while sleeping beside him, smothering him not out of anger but by mistake. Her mind not right, not even in the presence of the king. Yet to determine the true ownership, one had to be proven that the one claiming to be the mother cared nothing about the baby, but was only jealous.

Can you give someone up so they live, or is jealousy so much that death to that individual is more desired. Wisdom of Solomon was short lived, but this story continues on as parents allow their offspring to sprout wings to fly into adulthood. Every parent knowing sooner or later they have to give up their child. As the natural mother of the baby in this passage was looking to her child as the king threaten to have her child sawed in half, her only thought is how can I rescue my child. Giving the baby to her roommate seemed like the only way to keep her child alive. As she cried out give my son to this women. The king, knew that she was the real mother. A real mother learns to sacrifice her own happiness for her child. The king said give this baby back to his mother.

Dear Heavenly Father teach us the sacrifice does not mean one will loose. In Jesus precious name, Amen.