²¹ And Saul said, I will give her to him, so that she may be a cause of danger to him, and so that the hands of the Philistines may be against him. So Saul said to David, Today you are to become my son-in-law for the second time.

¹⁷ And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.

²⁶ And when his servants said these words to David, he was well pleased to be the son-in-law of the king. And the days were still not past.

⁷ And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?

⁸ His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

²⁶ For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

⁵ A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.

²⁴ With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

²⁵ When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:

²⁶ Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.

¹² Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

¹⁴ That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

¹⁵ He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

¹⁶ His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

¹¹ Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.

¹² So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away.