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.” 18 And David said to Saul, (E)“Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father's clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?” 19 But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to (F)Adriel the (G)Meholathite for a wife.

20 Now (H)Saul's daughter Michal (I)loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 21 Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may (J)be a snare for him (K)and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,[a] (L)“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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