1 Samuel 18:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.”
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“So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And it cometh to pass, at the time of the giving of Merab daughter of Saul to David, that she hath been given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Samuel 18:19 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 7:22And 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.
- Judges 14:20and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
- 2 Samuel 21:8But 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.
- 1 Kings 4:12Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;
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