20Now loved Michal, daughter of Saul’s אֶת David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 21So Saul said, “I will give her to him, that she may [f]be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall be my son-in-law today.”
22And commanded Saul אֶת his servants, “Communicate with David secretly, and say, ‘Look, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become the king’s son-in-law.’ ”
23So spoke servants of Saul in the hearing of David אֶת Words these. And David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king’s son-in-law, seeing I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?” 24And the servants of Saul told him, saying, [g]“In this manner David spoke.”
25Then Saul said, “Thus you shall say to David: ‘The king does not desire any dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’ ” But Saul thought to make fall אֶת David by the hand of the Philistines. 26So when told his servants David אֶת these words, it pleased David well to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the days had not expired; 27therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And brought David אֶת their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then gave him Saul אֶת Michal his daughter as a wife.
28Thus Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him; 29and Saul was still more afraid of David. So became Saul enemy אֶת of David [h]continually. 30Then the princes of the Philistines went out to war.And so it was, whenever they went out, that David behaved more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name became highly esteemed.
Syncing the end from the beginning
