David Marries Michal

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

21 Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,¹ “You shall now be my son-in-law.”