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12 Then Abner sent messengers to David [who was] in his place [at Hebron], saying, “Whose is the land? Make your covenant (treaty) with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring all Israel over to you.” 13 David said, “Good! I will make a covenant (treaty) with you, but I require one thing of you: you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see [a]me.” 14 So David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “[b]Give me my wife Michal, to whom I was [c]betrothed for [the price of] a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:13 Lit see my face.
  2. 2 Samuel 3:14 Saul promised Michal to David as his wife. See 1 Sam 18:25-27.
  3. 2 Samuel 3:14 I.e. a legal and binding promise of marriage.

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