9. And Saul eyed David from that day on.
10. The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.
11. And Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.
12. Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.
13. So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people.
14. And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.
15. And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him.
16. But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.
17. Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
18. And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father’s clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”
19. But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.
20. Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21. Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”