1Samuel:18:17-27
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And Saul said to David ,
Behold my elder daughter Merab ,
her will I give thee to wife :
only be thou valiant for me ,
and fight the LORD '
S battles .
For Saul said ,
Let not mine hand be upon him ,
but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him .
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And David said unto Saul ,
Who am I ?
and what is my life ,
or my father '
s family in Israel ,
that I should be son in law to the king ?
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But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul '
s daughter should have been given to David ,
that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife .
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And Michal Saul '
s daughter loved David :
and they told Saul ,
and the thing pleased him .
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And Saul said ,
I will give him her ,
that she may be a snare to him ,
and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him .
Wherefore Saul said to David ,
Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain .
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And Saul commanded his servants ,
saying ,
Commune with David secretly ,
and say ,
Behold ,
the king hath delight in thee ,
and all his servants love thee :
now therefore be the king '
s son in law .
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And Saul '
s servants spake those words in the ears of David .
And David said ,
Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king '
s son in law ,
seeing that I am a poor man ,
and lightly esteemed ?
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And the servants of Saul told him ,
saying ,
On this manner spake David .
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And Saul said ,
Thus shall ye say to David ,
The king desireth not any dowry ,
but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines ,
to be avenged of the king '
s enemies .
But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines .
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And when his servants told David these words ,
it pleased David well to be the king '
s son in law :
and the days were not expired .
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Wherefore David arose and went ,
he and his men ,
and slew of the Philistines two hundred men ;
and David brought their foreskins ,
and they gave them in full tale to the king ,
that he might be the king '
s son in law .
And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife .