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1 Samuel 18:25-30 American Standard Version (ASV)

25. And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

26. And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. And the days were not expired;

27. and David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

28. And Saul saw and knew that Jehovah was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.

29. And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

30. Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

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