²⁵ Then Saul said, “This is what you must say to David: ‘The king desires no bride price^[a] 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.) ²⁶ So his servants told David these words, and the matter pleased David^[b] to become the son-in-law of the king as the specified time had not expired.^[c]

²⁷ And 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^[d] to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as his wife.