1 Samuel 18:25-27

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²⁵Saul told them, “Say this to David, ‘David, the king doesn’t want you to pay money for his daughter.^[a] He wants to get even with his enemy, so the price for marrying his daughter is 100 Philistine foreskins.’” That was Saul’s secret plan. He thought the Philistines would kill David.

²⁶Saul’s officers told this to David. David was happy that he had a chance to become the king’s son-in-law, so immediately ²⁷he and his men went out to fight the Philistines. They killed 200^[b] Philistines. David took these Philistine foreskins and gave them to Saul. He did this because he wanted to become the king’s son-in-law.

Saul let David marry his daughter Michal.

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Footnotes

1 Samuel 18:25 money for his daughter In Bible times a man usually had to give money to a woman’s father before he could marry her.
1 Samuel 18:27 200 The ancient Greek version has “100.”