The men of Israel said, Have you seen this man who is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
Part of the reward for defeating Goliath that Saul had promised was that the victor’s family would be tax free in Israel (1 Samuel 17:25). [Note: See McCarter, p. 304; and Shemaryahu Talmon, King, Cult, and Calendar in Ancient Israel: Collected Studies, pp. 65-66.] The giving of the leader’s daughter in marriage to a valiant warrior was not without precedent in Israel (cf. Caleb’s challenge in Joshua 15:16).