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Then Saul said to David, "^(C1)Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife, only be a valiant man for me and fight ^(C2)the LORD'S battles." For Saul thought, "My hand shall not be against him, but ^(C3)let the hand of the Philistines be against him."

But David said to Saul, "^(C1)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?"

So it came about at the time that Merab, Saul's daughter, was to be given to David, that she was given instead to ^(C1)Adriel ^(C2)the Meholathite as a wife.