Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall today be my son-in-law.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. Days. Hebrew “In two thou shalt,” and so forth Calmet.—Prot. “in the one of the twain,” Merob or Michol. Bible.—Saul had deceived him with respect to the first; but he promises that he shall have “the second,” ( Calmet.) or two motives induced the king to make him this offer, the victory over Goliath, and the slaughter of 100 Philistines. Menochius. Tirinus.—The Septuagint omit this sentence, and read, “And the hand of the Philistines was upon Saul, and Saul commended,” and so forth