Coverdale(i)
7 And the wemen sange one to another, and played & sayde: Saul hath smytten his thousande: but Dauid his ten thousande.
8 Then was Saul very wroth, and yt worde displeased him sore, and he sayde: They haue ascrybed ten thousande vnto Dauid, and but one thousande vnto me: what shal he haue more but the kyngdome?
9 And from that daye forth, Saul loked sowerly vpo Dauid.
10 The nexte daye after came the euell sprete of God vpon Saul, and prophecyed in ye myddes of the house. But Dauid played on the instrumente with his hande, as he was wonte daylie.
11 And Saul had a iauelynge in his hande, and cast it, and thoughte: I wyll stycke Dauid fast to the wall. Neuerthelesse Dauid turned himselfe twyse awaye from him.
12 And Saul was afrayed of Dauid: for the LORDE was with him, and was departed from Saul.
13 Then Saul put him from him, and set him to be prynce ouer a thousande men, and he went out and in before the people.
14 And Dauid behaued himselfe wysely in all his doynges, and the LORDE was with him.
15 Now whan Saul sawe that he was so exceadynge wyse, he stode in feare of him.
16 But all Israel and Iuda loued Dauid, for he wente out and in before them.
17 And Saul sayde vnto Dauid: Beholde, my greatest doughter Merob wyl I geue the to wyfe: be stronge now, & gouerne the warres of the LORDE. For Saul thought: my hade shal not be vpon him, but the hande of ye Pilistynes
18 Neuertheles Dauid answered Saul: Who am I? & what is my life & the kynred of my father in Israel, that I shulde mary the kinges doughter?
19 But whan the tyme came, that Merob ye doughter of Saul shulde haue bene geue vnto Dauid, she was geuen vnto Adriel ye Meholathite to wyfe.
20 Neuerthelesse Michol Sauls doughter loued Dauid. Whan this was tolde Saul, ye matter pleased him well,
21 & he sayde: I wyl geue him her, yt she maye be a snare vnto him, & that the handes of ye Philistynes maye come vpon him. And he sayde vnto Dauid: This daye shalt thou be my doughters husbade ye secode time.