21 Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may (A)be a snare for him (B)and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,[a] (C)“You shall now be my son-in-law.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 18:21 Hebrew by two

25 Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no (A)bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, (B)that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.’” (C)Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

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