1 Samuel 18:17-19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁷ Saul told David, ‘Here is my eldest daughter Merab. I’ll give her to you as a wife^(A) if you will be a warrior for me and fight the Lord’s battles.’^(B) But Saul was thinking, ‘I don’t need to raise a hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.’^(C)

¹⁸ Then David responded, ‘Who am I,^(D) and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law? ’ ¹⁹ When it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.^(E)