1 Samuel 21:15
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New International Version (©1984)
Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
We already have enough of them around here! Why should I let someone like this be my guest?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to act the madman in my presence? Shall this one come into my house?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Do I have such a shortage of lunatics that you bring this man so that he can show me he is insane? Does this man have to come into my house?"

King James Bible
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?

American King James Version
Have I need of mad men, that you have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

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

Bible in Basic English
Are there not enough unbalanced men about me, that you have let this person come and do such tricks before me? is such a man to come into my house?

Douay-Rheims Bible
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?

Darby Bible Translation
have I lack of madmen, that ye have brought this one to rave in my presence? shall this man come into my house?

English Revised Version
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?

Webster's Bible Translation
Have I need of mad-men, that ye have brought this man to play the mad-man in my presence? shall this man come into my house?

World English Bible
Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?"

Young's Literal Translation
A lack of madmen have I, that ye have brought in this one to act as a madman by me! doth this one come in unto my house?'

Geneva Study Bible

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

(k) Is he fit to be in a king's house.

Wesley's Notes

21:15 Mad men - It is highly probable, Achish was aware, that this madness was counterfeit. But being desirous to preserve David, he speaks as if he thought it real.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:10-15 God's persecuted people have often found better usage from Philistines than from Israelites. David had reason to put confidence in Achish, yet he began to be afraid. His conduct was degrading, and discovered wavering in his faith and courage. The more simply we depend on God, and obey him, the more comfortably and surely we shall walk through this troublesome world.


1 Samuel 21:14 Then Achish said to his servants, "Behold, you see the man behaving as a madman. Why do you bring him to me?
1 Samuel 22:1 So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's household heard of it, they went down there to him. (NASB ©1995)

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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?

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