18. “Who am I?” David asked Saul. “And how important are my relatives or my father’s family in Israel that I should be the king’s son-in-law?”
19. But when the time came to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was married to Adriel from Meholah.
20. However, Saul’s daughter Michal fell in love with David. When Saul was told about it, the news pleased him.
21. Saul thought, “I’ll give her to David. She will trap him, and the Philistines will get him.” So he said to David a second time, “You will now be my son-in-law.”