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Adriel was thus married to Merab
- According to the biblical narrative, Saul had promised his daughter Merab’s hand in marriage to David as a reward for his victory against the Philistines. However, Saul reneged on his promise and married Merab to Adriel of Meholah instead. Adriel was thus married to Merab while David married Saul’s other daughter, Michal.
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Merab, daughter of Saul, was meant to marry David, but ended up being given in matrimony to Adriel the Metholathite. Rabbis in the Midrash and Aggadah discuss two different versions of events: one in which Merab marries David, and one where she marries Adriel.
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But when the time came for David to marry Saul's daughter Merab, Saul told her to marry Adriel from the town of Meholah. Douay-Rheims Bible. And it came to pass at the time when Merob the daughter of Saul should have been given to David, that she was given to Hadriel the Molathite to wife. English Revised Version.
According to the Bible, Adriel married Merab but their marriage ended in tragedy. It is mentioned in the book of 1 Samuel that Merab’s five sons from Adriel were killed and hung on a mountain as an act of vengeance.
Adriel the Meholathite - The five sons of this marriage perished by the hands of the Gibeonites (marginal reference), where we learn further that the name of Adriel's father, or ancestor, was Barzillai. His birth-place was Meholah, probably the same as Abel-Meholah. (See 1 Kings 19:16 note).
Adriel. A son of Barzillai, married Merab, daughter of Saul, who had been promised to David, 1 Samuel 18:19. Adriel had five sons by her, who were delivered up to the Gibeonites, to be put to death before the Lord, to avenge the cruelty of Saul their grandfather against the Gibeonites.
NLT So when the time came for Saul to give his daughter Merab in marriage to David, he gave her instead to Adriel, a man from Meholah.
Merab, one of the daughters of King Saul, is originally offered in marriage to David, whom Saul hopes to have killed. However, Saul’s plan fails, and Merab marries another man, while David marries Merab’s younger sister.
