Verse 20
1 Samuel 18:20
English Revised Version
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And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law a second time.
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
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was kn...
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And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
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Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
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And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his apparel,...
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And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over th...
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And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the...
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And the women sang one to another in their play, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David...
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And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David...
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9
And it came to pass on the morrow, that an evil spirit from God (Elohim) came mightily upon Saul, an...
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and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall. And David avoided out of...
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11
And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
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12
Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and c...
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13
And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
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14
And when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
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15
But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
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16
And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou...
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17
And David said unto Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I sho...
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18
But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to David, that she...
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19
And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
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20
And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philist...
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And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath...
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And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a ligh...
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And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
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And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins...
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And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law. And...
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and David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David bro...
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And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David; and Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.
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And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
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Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, th...
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