Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 21:15 in context
1 Samuel 21:12–15
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David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
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He changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.
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Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?
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Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”
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