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1 Samuel 18:19

AdrielDavidMerabSaul

17 Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

18 And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”

So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.

20 Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.

21 “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”

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BSB
So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of 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.
WEB
But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
ASV
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.
DARBY
And it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
BLB
And it came to pass at the time to give Merab daughter of Saul to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.
ÅB
Men da tiden kom at Merab, Sauls datter, skulle gis til David, ble hun gitt Adriel fra Mehola til hustru.
OTB
Så det skjedde, da tiden kom for Merab, Sauls datter, å bli gitt til David, at hun ble gitt til Adriel meholatitten som kone.
B1930
Men da tiden kom at Merab, Sauls datter, skulde gis til David, blev hun gitt Adriel fra Mehola til hustru.

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  • Judges 7:22

    And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.

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  • 2 Samuel 21:8

    But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

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  • Judges 14:20

    and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.

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