1 Kongebok 3:28
Hele Israel fikk høre om den dom kongen hadde felt, og de hadde ærefrykt for kongen; for de så at Guds visdom var i hans hjerte, så at han dømte rett.

. The two following instances are in some faint manner to be compared to Solomon's decision, inasmuch as they also work upon the human sympathies. Suetionius, in his Life of the emperor Claudian, tells us, that this emperor discovered a woman to be the real mother of a young man, whom she refused to acknowledge, by commanding her to marry him, the proofs being doubtful on both sides; for, rather than commit incest, she confessed the truth. Diodorus Siculus also informs us, that Ariopharnes, king of Thrace, being appointed to decided between three young men, each of whom professed to be the son of the deceased king of the Cimmerians, and claimed the succession, discovered the real son by ordering each to shoot an arrow into the dead body of the king: two of them did this without hesitation; but the real son of the deceased monarch refused.

Salomos Ordsprog 25:8
Gi dig ikke for hastig i strid med nogen, forat det ikke skal sies: Hvad vil du gjøre til slutt når motparten vinner saken til din skam?