1 Samuel 18:20-30

New King James Version

^20 (A)Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. ²¹ So Saul said, “I will give her to him, that she may ^[a]be a snare to him, and that ^(B)the 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.”

²² And 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.’ ”

²³ So 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?” ²⁴ And the servants of Saul told him, saying, ^[b]“In this manner David spoke.”

²⁵ Then Saul said, “Thus you shall say to David: ‘The king does not desire any ^(D)dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take ^(E)vengeance on the king’s enemies.’ ” But Saul ^(F)thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. ²⁶ So when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to become the king’s son-in-law. Now ^(G)the days had not expired; ²⁷ therefore David arose and went, he and ^(H)his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And ^(I)David 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.

²⁸ Thus Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him; ²⁹ and Saul was still more afraid of David. So Saul became David’s enemy ^[c]continually. ³⁰ Then the princes of the Philistines ^(J)went out to war. And so it was, whenever they went out, that David ^(K)behaved more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name became highly esteemed.