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A Quick Bible Study

January 23, 2010 on 10:40 pm | In Movies and TV and Stuff | No Comments

1 Kings 3:16-28

One day two women came to King Solomon, and one of them said: Your Majesty, this woman and I live in the same house. Not long ago my baby was born at home, and three days later her baby was born. Nobody else was there with us.
One night while we were all asleep, she rolled over on her baby, and he died. Then while I was still asleep, she got up and took my son out of my bed. She put him in her bed, then she put her dead baby next to me.
In the morning when I got up to feed my son, I saw that he was dead. But when I looked at him in the light, I knew he wasn’t my son.
“No!” the other woman shouted. “He was your son. My baby is alive!”
“The dead baby is yours,” the first woman yelled. “Mine is alive!”
They argued back and forth in front of Solomon, until finally he said, “Both of you say this live baby is yours. Someone bring me a sword.”
A sword was brought, and Solomon ordered, “Cut the baby in half! That way each of you can have part of him.”
“Please don’t kill my son,” the baby’s mother screamed. “Your Majesty, I love him very much, but give him to her. Just don’t kill him.”
The other woman shouted, “Go ahead and cut him in half. Then neither of us will have the baby.”
Solomon said, “Don’t kill the baby.” Then he pointed to the first woman, “She is his real mother. Give the baby to her.”
Everyone in Israel was amazed when they heard how Solomon had made his decision. They realized that God had given him wisdom to judge fairly.

How do we know that Solomon was wise? He could interpret these womens’ motivations and knew that the one who wanted the baby to live, and would rather see it in someone else’s hands than dead is the true mother.

Jay Leno’s show at 10:00 died. He and Conan both wanted to be the host of The Tonight Show. Jeff Zucker, offered to cut the show in half, shifting it to 12:05 and giving the first half of the Tonight Show timeslot to Leno. Jay said, “Fine cut it in half.” Conan said, “Don’t kill The Tonight Show. Give it to him.” How do we know that Jeff Zucker is an idiot? Rather than giving it to the most worthy and true host, the one who loved the show enough to give it up, he gave it to the thief.

Conan is better off without NBC and I’m sure that he will find a new show somewhere else. I am impressed by his integrity and in my mind he is the true host of The Tonight Show.

Johnny Carson died January 23, 2005. The Tonight Show died exactly 5 years later, when Conan’s last episode finished at 12:35am January 23, 2010.