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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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Saul’s Daughter Marries David. 17 Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will let you marry her. All I ask is that you remain brave and fight the Lord’s battles.” Saul thought, “I won’t have to kill David. The Philistines will do that.” 18 But David answered Saul, saying, “Who am I?
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.
But 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.
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.
The episode begins with a marriage proposal—Saul’s plan to marry Merab to David: “Then Saul said to David, ‘Here is my daughter, the older one, Merab; I will give her to you for a wife’” (v. 17) and concludes with Merab’s marriage to Adriel the Meholathite: “She was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife” (v. 19).
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. KJV But 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.
