1 Samuel 18:25

Good News Translation

and Saul ordered them to tell David: “All the king wants from you as payment for the bride are the foreskins of a hundred dead Philistines, as revenge on his enemies.” (This was how Saul planned to have David killed by the Philistines.)

Cross References

Genesis 29:18

Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said, “I will work seven years for you, if you will let me marry Rachel.”

Genesis 34:12

Tell me what presents you want, and set the payment for the bride as high as you wish; I will give you whatever you ask, if you will only let me marry her.”

2 Samuel 3:14

And David also sent messengers to Ishbosheth to say, “Give me back my wife Michal. I paid a hundred Philistine foreskins in order to marry her.”

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua did as the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the Israelites at a place called Circumcision Hill.

1 Samuel 14:24

The Israelites were weak with hunger that day, because Saul, with a solemn oath, had given the order: “A curse be on anyone who eats any food today before I take revenge on my enemies.” So nobody had eaten anything all day.

1 Samuel 17:26

David asked the men who were near him, “What will the man get who kills this Philistine and frees Israel from this disgrace? After all, who is this heathen Philistine to defy the army of the living God?”

1 Samuel 17:36

I have killed lions and bears, and I will do the same to this heathen Philistine, who has defied the army of the living God.

1 Samuel 18:17

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as your wife on condition that you serve me as a brave and loyal soldier, and fight the Lord's battles.” (Saul was thinking that in this way the Philistines would kill David, and he would not have to do it himself.)

1 Samuel 18:24

The officials told Saul what David had said,

1 Samuel 19:1

Saul told his son Jonathan and all his officials that he planned to kill David. But Jonathan was very fond of David,