Amplified Bible

1 Samuel 18:22-29 Amplified Bible (AMP)

22. And Saul commanded his servants to speak to David privately and say, The king delights in you, and all his servants love you; now then, become [his] son-in-law.

23. Saul's servants told those words to David. David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?

24. And the servants of Saul told him what David said.

25. Saul said, Say this to David, The king wants no dowry but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to avenge himself of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the Philistines' hands.

26. When his servants told David these words, it pleased [him] well to become the king's son-in-law. Before the days expired,

27. David went, he and his men, and slew two hundred Philistine men, and brought their foreskins and gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

28. When Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David and that Michal [his] daughter loved him,

29. Saul was still more afraid of David; and Saul became David's constant enemy.