9. From that day on, Saul kept a jealous eye on David.
10. The next day an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raged in his house. David was in attendance, playing the harp as at other times, while Saul was holding his spear.
11. Saul poised the spear, thinking, “I will nail David to the wall!” But twice David escaped him.
12. Saul then began to fear David because the Lord was with him but had turned away from Saul.
13. Saul sent him out of his presence and appointed him a field officer. So David led the people on their military expeditions
14. and prospered in all his ways, for the Lord was with him.
15. Seeing how he prospered, Saul feared David.
16. But all Israel and Judah loved David, since he led them on their expeditions.
17. Saul said to David, “Look, I will give you my older daughter, Merob, in marriage if you become my warrior and fight the battles of the Lord.” Saul thought, “I will not lay a hand on him. Let the hand of the Philistines strike him.”
18. But David answered Saul: “Who am I? And who are my kindred or my father’s clan in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”
19. But when the time came for Saul’s daughter Merob to be given to David, she was given as wife to Adriel the Meholathite instead.