The sons of Saul were Jonathan, Jishui, and Malchishua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.

David Marries Michal

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let my hand not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.

Thus Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him;

Saul also sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

So Michal let David down through a window. And he went and fled and escaped.

And Michal took an image and laid it in the bed, put a cover of goats’ hair for his head, and covered it with clothes.

Then Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this, and sent my enemy away, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’ ”

But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.