When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired;
L. P. Smith, in Interpreter's Bible, contradicted what is stated here, declaring that, "The killing of two hundred Philistines is an unnecessary and unoriginal exaggeration.  David paid the "full number" to Saul. viz., one hundred; and this is borne out by a later reference to the event in  2 Samuel 3:14."  This writer must confess that one of the most incredible discoveries of a whole lifetime of Bible study is the unjustifiable and even dishonest allegations of critical scholars against the Word of God. The two passages cited here harmonize perfectly.  2 Samuel 3:14 does not deny that David killed two hundred Philistines.  It only designates "the price" of the betrothal, which had been set by Saul and which was exactly what is related in this chapter.