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1 Samuel 18:17-19
Christian Standard Bible
1 Samuel 18:17-19
Christian Standard Bible
17 Saul told David, “Here is my oldest daughter Merab. I’ll give her to you as a wife(A) if you will be a warrior for me and fight the Lord’s battles.”(B) But Saul was thinking, “I don’t need to raise a hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”(C)
18 Then David responded, “Who am I,(D) and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?” 19 When it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.(E)
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