1 Samuel 18:20–27

^20aNow Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. ²¹So Saul said, “I will give her to him, that she may ⁶be a snare to him, and that ^bthe hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, ^c“You shall be my son-in-law today.”

²²And Saul commanded his servants, “Communicate with David secretly, and say, ‘Look, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become the king’s son-in-law.’ ”

²³So Saul’s servants spoke those words in the hearing of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king’s son-in-law, seeing I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?” ²⁴And the servants of Saul told him, saying, ⁷“In this manner David spoke.”

²⁵Then Saul said, “Thus you shall say to David: ‘The king does not desire any ^ddowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take ^evengeance on the king’s enemies.’ ” But Saul ^fthought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. ²⁶So when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to become the king’s son-in-law. Now ^gthe days had not expired; ²⁷therefore David arose and went, he and ^hhis men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And ⁱDavid brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.