Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it pleased him.

So his servants told David these things and David agreed to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired

Then the cows went directly on the road to Beth Shemesh. They went along, mooing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left. The leaders of the Philistines were walking along behind them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.