²⁵ Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no marriage present except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged on the king’s enemies.’ ” Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.^(A)

²⁶ When his servants told David these words, David was well pleased to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the time had expired,^(A)