וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֜וּל אֶל־דָּוִ֗ד הִנֵּה֩ בִתִּ֨י הַגְּדוֹלָ֤ה מֵרַב֙ אֹתָהּ֙ אֶתֶּן־לְךָ֣ לְאִשָּׁ֔ה אַ֚ךְ הֱיֵה־לִּ֣י לְבֶן־חַ֔יִל וְהִלָּחֵ֖ם מִלְחֲמ֣וֹת יְהוָ֑ה וְשָׁא֣וּל אָמַ֗ר אַל־תְּהִ֤י יָדִי֙ בּ֔וֹ וּתְהִי־ב֖וֹ יַד־פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃ (ס)
E Saul disse a Davide: «Ecco mia figlia maggiore, Merab; lei ti darò in moglie, purché tu sia per me un uomo valoroso e combatta le battaglie del Signore». Perché Saul pensava: «Non sia la mia mano contro di lui, ma sia contro di lui la mano dei Filistei».
Tze'enah Ure'enah
One asks about Scripture, why does it write the word leikhna without a heh. He writes leikhna without a heh, because this way the word adds up to one hundred. The lamed amounts to thirty, the khaf amounts to twenty, and the nun amounts to fifty. All together, this is one hundred. This showed that one of them would go away and one hundred uncircumcised men would sleep with her. From the other one, King David would come, who would marry the daughter of King Saul, whose name was Michal and her name also amounts to one hundred. He would betroth her with one hundred Philistine foreskins. That is to say, Saul did not want to give his daughter Michal to David unless he would kill a hundred Philistines. He had also promised his daughter because he had killed Goliath the Philistine. Afterwards, Saul said, if you won’t kill another hundred Philistines, I won’t give her to you.33I Samuel, 18:17–27.