17 Finally Saul said to David: “Here is my oldest daughter Meʹrab.+ She is the one that I shall give you as a wife.+ Only prove yourself a valiant person to me and fight the wars* of Jehovah.”+ But as for Saul, he said to himself: “Do not let my hand come to be upon him, but let the hand of the Phi·lisʹtines come to be upon him.”+

25 At that Saul said: “This is what YOU men will say to David, ‘The king has delight, not in marriage money,+ but in a hundred foreskins+ of the Phi·lisʹtines, to avenge+ himself on the enemies of the king.’” But as for Saul, he had schemed to have David fall by the hand of the Phi·lisʹtines.