1 Samuel 18:17-21 ▼

17 Then Saul said to David, |Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife, only be a valiant man for me and fight the LORD'S battles.| For Saul thought, |My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.|

18 But David said to Saul, |Who am I, and what is my life [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be the king's son-in-law?|

19 So it came about at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.

20 Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. When they told Saul, the thing was agreeable to him.

21 Saul thought, |I will give her to him that she may become a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.| Therefore Saul said to David, |For a second time you may be my son-in-law today.|