CHAPTER 5

Make the Right Compromise

LEARNING FROM

King Solomon

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To give you a clear idea of what this chapter is about, let us start off by reading the famous Old Testament story of King Solomon’s judgment1:

“Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him. The one woman said, ‘Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house. It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house. This woman’s son died in the night, because she lay ...

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