Saul said to David, “Look, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight YHWH’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”
Saul said, I will give her to him, so that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You may be my son-in-law today.”