16. But all Israel and Judah loved David, and he went out and came in before them.
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."