11. And Saul cast the spear, saying, I will smite David to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
12. But Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him and had departed from Saul.
13. Therefore, Saul removed him from him and made him captain over a thousand, and he went out and came in before the people.
14. And David behaved himself prudently in all his ways, and the Lord was with him.
15. Therefore, when Saul saw that he behaved himself very prudently, he was afraid of him.
16. But all Israel and Judah loved David because he went out and came in before them.
17. And Saul said to David, Behold I will give thee my elder daughter Merab to wife; only be thou valiant for me, and fight the Lord’s battles. For Saul said to himself, My hand shall not be against him, but the hand of the Philistines shall be against him.
18. And David said unto Saul, Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s family in Israel that I should be son-in-law to the king?
19. And it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David that she was given unto Adriel, the Meholathite, to wife.
20. But Michal, Saul’s other daughter, loved David, and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21. And Saul said, I will give her to him that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore, Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law with the other one.