1Sa 18:17, 25 | ESV | STEP | 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.

1 Samuel 18:17

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17 Then Saul said to David, “Here is ^amy elder daughter Merab. ^bI will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me ^cand fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, ^dbut let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

1 Samuel 18:25

25 Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no ^ebride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, ^fthat he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” ^gNow Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.