19 When it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.(A)

David’s Marriage to Michal

20 Now Saul’s daughter Michal(B) loved David, and when it was reported to Saul, it pleased him.[a] 21 “I’ll give her to him,” Saul thought. “She’ll be a trap for him, and the hand of the Philistines will be against him.”(C) So Saul said to David a second time, “You can now be my son-in-law.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 18:20 Lit Saul, the thing was right in his eyes

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