²⁰Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, so they told Saul, and the matter pleased him.^v ²¹And Saul thought, “I will give her to him, so that she may be a snare for him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time you can become my son-in-law today.” ²²Then Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in secret, saying, ‘Look, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. So then, become a son-in-law of the king.’ ” ²³And Saul’s servants spoke these words to David privately.^w But David said, “Is it insignificant in your sight^x to become the son-in-law of the king, as I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?” ²⁴So the servants of Saul informed him, saying, “This is what David said.”^y ²⁵Then Saul said, “This is what you must say to David: ‘The king desires no bride price^z except for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to avenge himself on the enemies of the king.’ ” (Now Saul had planned to allow David to fall by the hand of the Philistines.) ²⁶So his servants told David these words, and the matter pleased David^a to become the son-in-law of the king as the specified time had not expired.^b

²⁷And David got up, and he and his men went and struck down two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they presented the full number^c to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as his wife.

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Footnotes

vLiterally “was right in his eyes”
wLiterally “in the ears of David”
xLiterally “in your eyes”
yLiterally “According to these words David spoke”
zLiterally “There is not a desire for the king for a bride price”
aLiterally “was right in the eyes of David”
bLiterally “the days were not full”
cLiterally “they filled them up”