And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
And David sent messengers to Isboseth the son of Saul, saying: Restore my wife Michol, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that were under him, and he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and brought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he might be his son in law.
And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskinsof the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.
Why foreskins and fingers were buried with a dead chief or stuck up on the roof of his house, we are not informed, and it is not easy to divine.
Sidenote: Sacrifices of foreskins and fingers in honour of the dead.
At all events it deserves to be noted that according to a very good authority a similar sacrifice of foreskins used to be made not only for the dead but for the living.
Many boys had their little fingers chopped off on the same occasion, and the severed foreskins and fingers were placed in the chief's grave.
A curious sacrifice offered in honour of a dead chief consisted in the foreskins of all the boys who had arrived at a suitable age; the lads were circumcised on purpose to furnish them.
This proposal, however, it seems, did not alarm David in the least, he went forth at once on his terrible mission and actually brought back thrice the number of foreskins required of him by the King.
This was Saul's opportunity and his message was, "the King desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
In commanding the foreskins to be brought to him Saul made sure that they would be Philistines who were slain, they being almost the only uncircumcised people about him.
See Aisawa Israelites covet the foreskins of the Philistines, i.
Philistines, the foreskinsof the, coveted by the Israelites, i.
Unmatjera tribe of Central Australia, their disposal of foreskinsat circumcision, i.
Anula tribe of Northern Australia, their disposal of foreskins at circumcision, i.
David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
Saul said, Thus shall you tell David, The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.
Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
The Dieri also imagine that the foreskins taken from lads at circumcision have a great power of producing rain.
Hence the Great Council of the tribe always keeps a small stock of foreskins ready for use.
The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.
And the hundred foreskins David paid down in full tale.
The only dowry the king sought was a hundred foreskinsof the Philistines.
What good had come of all his perilous exploits against the Philistines, of the hundred foreskins of the king's enemies, of the last great victory which had brought so unprecedented advantage to Israel?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreskins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
