19 But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to (A)Adriel the (B)Meholathite for a wife.

20 Now (C)Saul's daughter Michal (D)loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 21 Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may (E)be a snare for him (F)and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,[a] (G)“You shall now be my son-in-law.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 18:21 Hebrew by two

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