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.”

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21 Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may (A)be a snare for him (B)and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,[a] (C)“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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