1 Samuel 21:15 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁵ Then Achish said to his courtiers, “Look, you can see the man is insane. Why did you bring him to me?

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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?"

1 Samuel 21:15 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 119:161

Princes persecute me for no reason, but my heart is in awe of Your words.

1 Samuel 21:14

that he changed his demeanor before them and acted like a mad man while in their hands—scribbling on the doors of the gate and letting his saliva run down his beard.

1 Samuel 22:1

So David walked from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard about it, they went down there to him.