Adriel - flock of God, the son of Barzillai, the Meholathite, to whom
Saul gave in marriage his daughter
Merab[?] (1 Sam. 18:19). The
five sons that sprang from this union were put to death by the
Gibeonites (2 Sam. 21:8, 9. Here it is said that
Michal[?] "brought
up" [R.V., "bare"] these five sons, either that she treated them
as if she had been their own mother, or that for "
Michal[?]" we
should read "
Merab[?]," as in 1 Sam. 18:19).
From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)