26 So when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to become the king’s son-in-law. Now ^athe days had not expired;  ‡

27 therefore David arose and went, he and ^ahis men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And ^bDavid brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.  ‡

29 and Saul was still more afraid of David. So Saul became David’s enemy¹ continually.  ‡

30 Then the princes of the Philistines ^awent out to war. And so it was, whenever they went out, that David ^bbehaved more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name became highly esteemed. ‡