¹² Ask me ever so much ^(A)dowry^[a] and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife.”

²⁵ Then Saul said, “Thus you shall say to David: ‘The king does not desire any ^(A)dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take ^(B)vengeance on the king’s enemies.’ ” But Saul ^(C)thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.