Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab.
I will give her to you as wife.
Only be valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles.”
For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”
David said to 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?”
But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.