1 Samuel 21:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ Do I lack mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Have I need of madmen, that you bring this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Am I short on insane people that you’ve brought this person to go crazy right in front of me? Do you really think I’m going to let this man enter my house?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Or do we have need of those who are mad, so that you would bring in this one, to behave madly in my presence? How did this man get into my house?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Have we need of madmen, that you have brought in this fellow, to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?

1 Samuel 21:15 Cross References

Psalm 119:161

Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart standeth in awe of thy words.

1 Samuel 21:14

Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?

1 Samuel 22:1

David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.