25 And Saul said, This wise shall ye say to David, The king desireth no dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the King’s enemies: for Saul thought to make David fall into the hands of the Philistines.

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27 Afterward David arose with his men, and went and slew of the Philistines two hundred men: and David brought their foreskins, and [a]they gave them wholly to the King that he might be the King’s son-in-law: therefore Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 18:27 Meaning, David and his soldiers.

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