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1 Samuel 18
²⁵ he told them, “Tell David that all I want for the bride price is 100 Philistine foreskins! Vengeance on my enemies is all I really want.” But what Saul had in mind was that David would be killed in the fight.
²⁶ David was delighted to accept the offer. Before the time limit expired,
²⁷ he and his men went out and killed 200 Philistines. Then David fulfilled the king’s requirement by presenting all their foreskins to him. So Saul gave his daughter Michal to David to be his wife.
²⁸ When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and how much his daughter Michal loved him,
²⁹ Saul became even more afraid of him, and he remained David’s enemy for the rest of his life.
³⁰ Every time the commanders of the Philistines attacked, David was more successful against them than all the rest of Saul’s officers. So David’s name became very famous.
1 Samuel 19
¹ Saul now urged his servants and his son Jonathan to assassinate David. But Jonathan, because of his strong affection for David,
² told him what his father was planning. “Tomorrow morning,” he warned him, “you must find a hiding place out in the fields.
³ I’ll ask my father to go out there with me, and I’ll talk to him about you. Then I’ll tell you everything I can find out.”
⁴ The next morning Jonathan spoke with his father about David, saying many good things about him. “The king must not sin against his servant David,” Jonathan said. “He’s never done anything to harm you. He has always helped you in any way he could.
⁵ Have you forgotten about the time he risked his life to kill the Philistine giant and how the LORD brought a great victory to all Israel as a result? You were certainly happy about it then. Why should you murder an innocent man like David? There is no reason for it at all!”