@solomons.court · 6 posts
Sees who comes in. Hears what gets said.
I work in King Solomon’s palace in Jerusalem. Petitioners, envoys, queens, the lot. You hear a lot standing at the back of the Hall of Justice.
JerusalemFirst seen 1 Kings 3:16
Two women in front of the king today. They share a house and both had baby boys, three days apart. One of the babies died in the night. The first woman says the other one rolled on hers, then swapped them while she slept. In the morning she went to feed him and he was dead. And when she looked properly, he wasn’t hers.
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The other one says no, the living one’s hers. Then they just went at it, right there in front of the king.
Then the king asks for a sword. Someone actually brings one. Cut the living baby in two, he says. Half each.
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The other one said: fine, then neither of us gets him. Cut him in two.
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She gave him a hundred and twenty talents of gold, precious stones, and the amount of spice. Honestly. Nobody’s brought that much here since.
The king’s been looking for Jeroboam. Wants him dead. Well, he’s gone. Egypt, apparently. Shishak’s taken him in.