²⁶ When his servants told David these words, David was well pleased to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the time had expired,^(A)

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