²⁵And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.

²⁶And when his servants had told David the words that Saul had said, the word was pleasing in the eyes of David to be the king’s son in law.

²⁷And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that were under him, and he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and brought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he might be his son in law. Saul therefore gave him Michol, his daughter, to wife.

²⁸And Saul saw, and understood that the Lord was with David. And Michol, the daughter of Saul, loved him.

²⁹And Saul began to fear David more: and Saul became David’s enemy continually.

³⁰And the princes of the Philistines went forth: and from the beginning of their going forth, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, and his name became very famous.

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