David Marries Saul’s Daughter

²⁰ Now ^(A)Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they informed Saul, the thing was pleasing ^[a]to him.

²⁷ David set out and went, ^(A)he and his men, and fatally struck two hundred men among the Philistines. Then ^(B)David brought their foreskins, and they presented all two hundred of them to the king, so that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal as a wife.

^12 (A)So Michal let David down through a window, and he went and fled, and escaped.

²⁰ But when David returned to bless his own household, Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel dignified himself today! For ^(A)he exposed himself today in the sight of his servants’ female slaves, as one of the ^(B)rabble shamelessly exposes himself!” ²¹ But David said to Michal, “^(C)I was before the Lord, who preferred me to your father and to all his house, to appoint me as ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel. So I will ^[a]celebrate before the Lord! ²² And I might demean myself even more than this and be lowly in my own sight, but with the female slaves of whom you have spoken, with them I am to be held in honor!” ²³ And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.