²⁰Saul’s daughter Michal, however, fell in love with David, and when Saul heard of this, he was pleased. ²¹He said to himself, “I’ll give Michal to David; I will use her to trap him, and he will be killed by the Philistines.” So for the second time Saul said to David, “You will be my son-in-law.” ²²He ordered his officials to speak privately to David and tell him, “The king is pleased with you and all his officials like you; now is a good time for you to marry his daughter.”

²³So they told David this, and he answered, “It’s a great honour to become the king’s son-in-law, too great for someone poor and insignificant like me.”

²⁴The officials told Saul what David had said, ²⁵and Saul ordered them to tell David: “All the king wants from you as payment for the bride is the foreskins of a hundred dead Philistines, as revenge on his enemies.” (This was how Saul planned to have David killed by the Philistines.) ²⁶Saul’s officials reported to David what Saul had said, and David was delighted with the thought of becoming the king’s son-in-law. Before the day set for the wedding, ²⁷David and his men went and killed 200 Philistines. He took their foreskins to the king and counted them all out to him, so that he might become his son-in-law. So Saul had to give his daughter Michal in marriage to David.

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