018:010 It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand; 018:011 and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will strike David even to the wall. David avoided out of his presence twice. 018:012 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul. 018:013 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. 018:014 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him. 018:015 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him. 018:016 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them. 018:017 Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you as wife: only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles. For Saul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him. 018:018 David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king? 018:019 But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife. 018:020 Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 018:021 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, You shall this day be my son-in-law a second time. 018:022 Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law. 018:023 Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, Seems it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? 018:024 The servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David. 018:025 Saul said, Thus shall you tell David, The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 018:026 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired; 018:027 and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.