David Marries Michal

¹⁷ Then Saul said to David, “Here is ^(A)my elder daughter Merab. ^(B)I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me ^(C)and fight the Lord's battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, ^(D)but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

²⁸ Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make my lord ^(A)a sure house, because my lord ^(B)is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.

²⁵ Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no ^(A)bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, ^(B)that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.’” ^(C)Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

²⁵ And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to ^(A)defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches ^(B)and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.”

²¹ Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may ^(A)be a snare for him ^(B)and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,^{[a] (C)}“You shall now be my son-in-law.”

⁴⁷ and that all this assembly may know that ^(A)the Lord saves not with sword and spear. ^(B)For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand.”

^9 (A)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, ^(B)to do what is evil in his sight? ^(C)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and ^(D)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.