Quoting%20commentary for Sanhedrin 38:12

אלא מקיש קידושי מירב לעדריאל לקידושי מיכל לפלטי מה קידושי מיכל לפלטי בעבירה אף קידושי מירב לעדריאל בעבירה

Or if you like, I will say, all agree that where a loan and a <i>perutah</i> [are offered], the mind is set on the <i>perutah</i>. Saul, however, thought that [the hundred foreskins] had no value, while David held that they had value at least as food for dogs and cats. How does R. Jose<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who holds that before his marriage to Michal, David was legally married to Merab. ');">²⁰</span> interpret the verse, Deliver me my wife Michal? — 21 He explains it by another view of his. For it has been taught: R. Jose used to interpret the following confused passage thus: It is written, But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Ayah whom she bore unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal, the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai, the Meholathite etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Sam, XXI, 8. ');">²²</span>

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