1Sa 18:17, 19:11-12 | 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

David Marries Michal

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 19:11-12

11 ^eSaul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” 12 ^fSo Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.