Verse 20
1 Samuel 18:20
World English Bible, British Edition
20
Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and
the thing pleased him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תֶּאֱהַ֛ב מִיכַ֥ל בַּת שָׁא֖וּל אֶת דָּוִ֑ד וַ/יַּגִּ֣דוּ לְ/שָׁא֔וּל וַ/יִּשַׁ֥ר הַ/דָּבָ֖ר בְּ/עֵינָֽי/ו
English Translation
And Michal, daughter of Saul, loved David, and they told Saul, and the matter was right in his eyes.
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Chapter 18 Context
1
When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with
the soul of David, and Jon...
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2
Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s
house any more.
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3
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his
own soul.
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4
Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to
David with his clothing, even i...
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5
David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely;
and Saul set him over the men of...
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6
As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,
the women came out of all th...
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7
The women sang to one another as they played, and said,
“Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his...
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8
Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said,
“They have credited David with ten tho...
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9
Saul watched David from that day and forward.
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10
On the next day, an evil spirit from God (Elohim) came mightily on Saul, and
he prophesied in the mi...
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11
and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!”
David escaped from his presen...
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12
Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and had departed
from Saul.
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13
Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain
over a thousand; and he went...
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14
David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was
with him.
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15
When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe
of him.
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16
But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before
them.
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17
Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her
to you as wife. Only be valian...
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18
David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s
family in Israel, that I should b...
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19
But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been
given to David, she was given to Adrie...
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20
Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and
the thing pleased him.
21
Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and
that the hand of the Philistin...
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22
Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and
say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in yo...
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23
Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David
said, “Does it seem to you a light thi...
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24
The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”
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25
Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one
hundred foreskins of the Philistines,...
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26
When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to
be the king’s son-in-law. Before...
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27
David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of
the Philistines. Then David brou...
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28
Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David; and Michal, Saul’s
daughter, loved him.
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29
Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
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30
Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as
they went out, David behaved himself m...
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