David Marries Michal
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Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab; u I will give her to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight v the LORD's battles." For Saul thought, w "Let my hand not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him."
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So David said to Saul, x "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?"
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But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to y Adriel the z Meholathite as a wife.
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a Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
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So Saul said, "I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that b the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time, c "You shall be my son-in-law today."
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And Saul commanded his servants, "Communicate with David secretly, and say, 'Look, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become the king's son-in-law.' "
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So Saul's servants spoke those words in the hearing of David. And David said, "Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?"
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And the servants of Saul told him, saying, "In this manner David spoke."
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Then Saul said, "Thus you shall say to David: 'The king does not desire any d dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take e vengeance on the king's enemies.' " But Saul f thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
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So when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to become the king's son-in-law. Now g the days had not expired;
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therefore David arose and went, he and h his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And i David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.
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Thus Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him;
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and Saul was still more afraid of David. So Saul became David's enemy continually.
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Then the princes of the Philistines j went out to war. And so it was, whenever they went out, that David k behaved more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name became highly esteemed.
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Numbers 27:16
Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation.
Numbers 27:17
"who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no shepherd."
1 Samuel 18:5
So David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved wisely. And Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
2 Samuel 5:2
"Also, in time past, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them in; and the LORD said to you, 'You shall shepherd My people Israel, and be ruler over Israel.'"
1 Kings 3:7
Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.
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1 Samuel 14:49
The sons of Saul were Jonathan, Jishui, and Malchishua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.
1 Samuel 17:25
So the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and it shall be that the man who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, will give him his daughter, and give his father's house exemption from taxes in Israel.
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Numbers 32:20
Then Moses said to them: "If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the LORD for the war.
Numbers 32:27
"but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, just as my lord says."
Numbers 32:29
And Moses said to them: "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.
1 Samuel 25:28
Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant. For the LORD will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord fights the battles of the LORD, and evil is not found in you throughout your days.
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1 Samuel 18:21
So Saul said, "I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall be my son-in-law today.
1 Samuel 18:25
Then Saul said, "Thus you shall say to David: 'The king does not desire any dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies.' " But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
2 Samuel 12:9
Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.
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1 Samuel 9:21
And Saul answered and said, " Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak like this to me?
1 Samuel 18:23
So Saul's servants spoke those words in the hearing of David. And David said, "Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?
2 Samuel 7:18
Then King David went in and sat before the LORD; and he said: "Who am I, O Lord GOD? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far?
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2 Samuel 21:8
So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
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Judges 7:22
When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the LORD set every man's sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
2 Samuel 21:8
So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
1 Kings 19:16
Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel. And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.
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1 Samuel 18:28
Thus Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.
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1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles." For Saul thought, "Let my hand not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
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1 Samuel 18:26
So when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to become the king's son-in-law. Now the days had not expired.
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Genesis 34:12
"Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife."
Exodus 22:17
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the bride-price of virgins.
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1 Samuel 14:24
And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had placed the people under oath, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.
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1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles." For Saul thought, "Let my hand not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
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1 Samuel 18:21
So Saul said, "I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall be my son-in-law today.
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1 Samuel 18:13
Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
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2 Samuel 3:14
So David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
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2 Samuel 11:1
It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
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