1 Samuel 18:16-20
1 Samuel 18:16
But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he would go out to battle and return before them.
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 a valiant man for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
1 Samuel 18:18
But David said to Saul, “Who am I, and who is my family, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be the king’s son-in-law?”
1 Samuel 18:19
So it came about at the time that Merab, Saul’s daughter, was to be given to David, that she was given instead to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife. David Marries Saul’s Daughter
1 Samuel 18:20
Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they informed Saul, the thing was pleasing to him.