| Verse | Translation | Text |
| 1Sa 18:20 | Strong Concordance | And Michal [04324] Saul's [07586] daughter [01323] loved [0157] David [01732]: and they told [05046] Saul [07586], and the thing [01697] pleased [03474] [05869] him. |
| King James | And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Michal Saul's daughter loved David--This must have happened some time after. they told Saul, and the thing pleased him--Not from any favor to David, but he saw that it would be turned to the advancement of his malicious purposes, and the more so when, by the artful intrigues and flattery of his spies, the loyal sentiments of David were discovered. |