¹² Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl ^[a]in marriage.”

²⁵ Saul then said, “Thus you shall say to David, ‘The king does not desire any ^(A)dowry except a 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.