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25 Saul then said, “Thus you shall say to David, ‘The king does not desire any (A)dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, (B)to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” Now (C)Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 Then his servants told David these words, and it was right in the eyes of David to become the king’s son-in-law. [a](D)So before the days had expired, 27 David rose up and went, (E)he and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines. Then (F)David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. So Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.

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  1. 1 Samuel 18:26 Lit And the days had not expired