CLV(i)
17 And Saul said unto David, `Lo, my elder daughter Merab--her I give to you for a wife; only, be to me for a son of valor, and fight the battles of Yahweh;' and Saul said, `Let not my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him..
18 And David said unto Saul, `Who [am] I? and what my life--the family of my father in Israel--that I am son-in-law to the king?.
19 And it comes to pass, at the time of the giving of Merab daughter of Saul to David, that she has been given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.
20 And Michal daughter of Saul loves David, and they declare to Saul, and the thing is right in his eyes,
21 and Saul said, `I give her to him, and she is to him for a snare, and the hand of the Philistines is on him;' and Saul said unto David, `By the second--you do become my son-in-law to-day..
22 And Saul commands his servants, `Speak unto David gently, saying, Lo, the king has delighted in you, and all his servants have loved you, and now, be son-in-law to the king..
23 And the servants of Saul speak in the ears of David these words, and David said, `Is it a light thing in your eyes to be son-in-law to the king--and I a poor man, and lightly esteemed?.
24 And the servants of Saul declare to him, saying, `According to these words has David spoken..
25 And Saul said, `Thus do you say to David, There is no delight to the king in dowry, but in a hundred foreskins of the Philistines--to be avenged on the enemies of the king;' and Saul thought to cause David to fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26 And his servants declare to David these words, and the thing is right in the eyes of David, to be son-in-law to the king; and the days have not been full,
27 and David rises and goes, he and his men, and smites among the Philistines two hundred men, and David brings in their foreskins, and they set them before the king, to be son-in-law to the king; and Saul gives to him Michal his daughter for a wife.