1 Samuel 18:25–30

²⁵Saul then said, “Thus you shall say to David, ‘The king does not desire any ^adowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, ^bto take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’ ” Now ^cSaul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

²⁶When his servants told David these words, ¹it pleased David to become the king’s son-in-law. ^2aBefore the days had expired

²⁷David rose up and went, ^ahe and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines. Then ^bDavid brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. So Saul gave him Michal his daughter for a wife.

²⁸When Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him,

²⁹then Saul was even more afraid of David. Thus Saul was David’s enemy continually.

³⁰Then the commanders of the Philistines ^awent out to battle, and it happened as often as they went out, that David ^bbehaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul. So his name was highly esteemed.