BRAGADAYJAH
873
David
accepts Saul’s Daughter
Saul’s
servants having spoken to David and learnt his heart, reported back to Saul
that David was not against the idea of marriage to his daughter, but worried
that he may not be good enough and also that he had no dowry fit for a king. So
Saul hastily advised his servants to go back to David and tell him that the
king required no dowry of him, but instead a hundred Philistine foreskins as
revenge on the king’s enemies. Of course
this was in pursuit of Saul’s deeper scheme to have David fall by the hand of
the Philistines. And so when Saul’s
servants told David these words of Saul’s, it pleased David to be the king’s
son-in-law. So David rose and with his men slew two hundred Philistines, and
took their foreskins to Saul; and Saul gave David his daughter Michal to be his
wife. In the meantime Saul saw and knew that the Lord loved David, and also
that his daughter Michal loved him also. Yet Saul became even more afraid of
David, and took David to be his enemy. But David continued to fight against and
vanquish the Philistines, so that his name was much adored by all Israel which
vexed Saul even more.
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