1 Samuel 18:10-19 - Saul Attempts To Kill David

¹⁰ And it will be on the morrow, and the evil spirit of God will fall upon Saul, and he will prophesy in the midst of the house: and David playing with his hand as the day to day: and a spear in Saul's hand. ¹¹ And Saul will lift up the spear, and say, I will strike against David into the wall And David will flee from before him twice.

¹² And Saul will be afraid from the face of David, for Jehovah was with him, and he departed from Saul. ¹³ And Saul will remove him from him, and will set to him chief of a thousand; and he will go out and come in before the people. ¹⁴ And David will be prudent in all his ways; and Jehovah with him. ¹⁵ And Saul will see that he is prudent greatly, and he will be afraid of his face. ¹⁶ And all Israel and Judah loved David, for he will go out and come in before them. ¹⁷ And Saul will say to David, Behold, my daughter the great, Merab; her will I give to thee for wife; but be thou to me for a son of strength and fight the battles of Jehovah. And Saul said, My hand shall not be upon him, and the hand of the rovers shall be upon him.

¹⁸ And David will say to Saul, Who am I? and who was my father's family in Isarel that I shall be son-in-law to the king? ¹⁹ And it will be in the time of giving Merab, Saul's daughter, to David, and he gave her to Adriel, the Meholathite, for wife,