27 David and his men went out and killed two hundred[a] Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as full payment to the king to become his son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David as his wife.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:27 LXX reads 100

14 Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife Michal. I was engaged to her for the price of a hundred Philistine foreskins.”(A)

15 So Ish-bosheth sent someone to take her away from her husband, Paltiel son of Laish.(B)

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