1 SAMUEL 18:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
But when the time came for giving Merab, daughter of Saul, to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite — Saul's *va'yitneha le'Adriel ha'meholati*, gave her to Adriel, represents a formal breaking of the proposal, a public humiliation for David. The reneging on the marriage offer was a deliberate slight, a reminder of Saul's power to elevate or diminish, to offer and to withdraw. The substitution of Adriel for David is not merely a change of bride but a reassertion of royal prerogative.
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