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So it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.

And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. So they told Saul, and the thing was right in his eyes.

Then Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David secretly, saying, ‘Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you; so now, become the king's son-in-law.'"

So Saul's servants spoke these words in David's hearing. But David said, "Is it trivial in your eyes to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?"

Then his servants told David these words, and it was right in the eyes of David to become the king's son-in-law. So before the days had expired,

David rose up and went, he and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. So Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.

so Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David's enemy continually.

Then the commanders of the Philistines went out to battle, and it happened as often as they went out, that David behaved himself more insightfully than all the servants of Saul. So his name was highly esteemed.

So Jonathan told David saying, "Saul my father is seeking to put you to death. So now, please be careful in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

Then there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great slaughter, so that they fled before him.

And Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped.

So Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me on his bed, that I may put him to death."

So Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" And Michal said to Saul, "He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I put you to death?'"

This was told to Saul, and he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. So Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.

So he went there, to Naioth in Ramah; and the Spirit of God came upon him also, so that he went along prophesying continually until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

And he said to him, "Far from it, you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without revealing it in my ear. So why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!"

So David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit down to eat with the king. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening.

And Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." So both of them went out to the field.

If it please my father to do you harm, may Yahweh do so to Jonathan and more also, if I do not reveal it in your ear and send you away, that you may go in peace. And may Yahweh be with you as He has been with my father.