1 Samuel 18:21

Contextual Overview

¹² And Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul. ¹² Saul was then afraid of David, for the Lord was with David and had turned away from Saul. ¹² And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul. ¹² The Lord was with David but had left Saul. So Saul was afraid of David. ¹² So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul. ¹² And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and had departed from Saul. ¹² Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul. ¹²Now Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, but had departed from Saul. ¹² Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul. ¹² And Saul dredde Dauid, for the Lord was with hym, and hadde go awei fro him silf.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a snare: Exodus 10:7, Psalms 7:14-16, Psalms 38:12, Proverbs 26:24-26, Proverbs 29:5, Jeremiah 5:26, Jeremiah 9:8

the hand: 1 Samuel 18:17, 1 Samuel 19:11, 1 Samuel 19:12

this day: 1 Samuel 18:26

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:33 - it will surely 2 Samuel 11:15 - Set ye 2 Samuel 12:7 - I delivered 2 Samuel 17:4 - the saying Psalms 10:10 - humbleth Psalms 11:2 - that Psalms 36:3 - The words Psalms 37:12 - General Psalms 56:5 - all Psalms 62:9 - of high Proverbs 10:18 - that hideth Proverbs 26:26 - Whose hatred is covered by deceit Matthew 2:7 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.

Genesis 11:5
And Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of man built.

Genesis 11:5
The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.

Genesis 11:5
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

Genesis 11:5
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.

Genesis 11:5
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

Genesis 11:5
Now the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

Genesis 11:5
Forsothe the Lord cam down to se the citee and tour, which the sones of Adam bildiden.

Genesis 11:5
And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

Genesis 11:5
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him,.... The cause and occasion of his fall and ruin, by means of what he should propose to him as the condition of marriage; but instead of proving a snare to him, as he hoped, she was the means of his deliverance, when Saul sent messengers to slay him, 1 Samuel 19:11,

and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him; provoked by what he should put him upon doing to them. The scheme he had in his head after appears, and what he now said was not openly said before his servants and courtiers, whom he did not trust with his secrets, but this he said within himself, conceived and contrived it in his own mind:

wherefore Saul said to David; who was as yet at court, or whom he sent for on this occasion:

thou shalt this day be my son in law in [the one of] the twain; by marrying one of his two daughters; signifying, that he would not defer the marriage, or put it off to a longer time, as he had done before, but that he should be married immediately to one or other of his daughters; and seeing he could not have the eldest, she being disposed of, he should have the youngest, and so be equally his son-in-law. If we read the words without the supplement, "shalt be my son-in-law in the two", or in both, the sense is, that he should have them both; and so the Jews say w, that he married them both, first Merab, and after her death Michal; or that he should be his son-in-law on two accounts, one by betrothing Merab, though he was not married to her, and the other by being married to Michal, so that he would be doubly his son in law; but the sense, according to the supplement, is best.

w T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 19. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the one of the twain - Some prefer “the second time” Job 33:14. The first contract had been broken by giving Merab to Adriel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 18:21. That she may be a snare to him — Saul had already determined the condition on which he would give his daughter to David; viz., that he should slay one hundred Philistines: this he supposed he would undertake for the love of Michal, and that he must necessarily perish in the attempt; and thus Michal would become a snare to him.