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When these words of Saul were brought to David, he was pleased with
them, and supposed that Saul was really desirous of this affinity with
him; so that without bearing to deliberate any longer, or casting about
in his mind whether what was proposed was possible, or was difficult or
not, he and his companions immediately set upon the enemy, and went about
doing what was proposed as the condition of the marriage. Accordingly,
because it was God who made all things easy and possible to David, he slew
many [of the Philistines], and cut off the heads of six hundred of them,
and came to the king, and by showing him these heads of the Philistines,
required that he might have his daughter in marriage. Accordingly, Saul
having no way of getting off his engagements, as thinking it a base thing
either to seem a liar when he promised him this marriage, or to appear
to have acted treacherously by him, in putting him upon what was in a manner
impossible, in order to have him slain, he gave him his daughter in marriage:
her name was Michal.
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1 HOW DAVID, UPON SAUL'S LAYING SNARES FOR HIM, DID YET ESCAPE THE DANGERS HE WAS IN BY THE AFFECTION AND CARE OF JONATHAN AND THE CONTRIVANCES OF HIS WIFE MICHAL: AND HOW HE CAME TO SAMUEL THE PROPHET.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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