Why did King Saul ask for foreskins?
1 Samuel 18:27
ESV - 27 David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.
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I would say that King Saul asked for foreskins because the only way that David would be able to get foreskins would be to kill uncircumcised males (which the Philistines would have been), and the foreskins would be indisputable proof that the Philistines were dead, since David would not have been able to cut off their foreskins while the Philistines were still alive. Requiring David to be in sufficient proximity to the Philistines to remove their foreskins would increase the chance that David would be killed by the Philistines while fighting with them, which was the actual objective of Saul imposing this requirement on David, since Saul was jealous of David's increasing popularity, and wanted David killed, but did not want the people to blame him for David's death.
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