1 Samuel 21:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Sam 21:10-14
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    91%

    10 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

    11 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"

    12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

    13 He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

    14 Then Achish said to his servants, "Look, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?

  • 1 Sam 29:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3 Then the princes of the Philistines said, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to this day?"

    4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?

  • 1 Sam 29:6-8
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    6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, "As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don't favor you.

    7 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines."

    8 David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"

  • Prov 26:18
    67%

    18 Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,

  • 1 Sam 26:18-19
    2 verses
    67%

    18 He said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

    19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

  • Eccl 2:2
    67%

    2 I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

  • 1 Sam 17:8
    67%

    8 He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, "Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

  • 1 Sam 17:29
    67%

    29 David said, "What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"

  • John 10:20
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    20 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"

  • 1 Sam 16:16-17
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    67%

    16 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp. It shall happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well."

    17 Saul said to his servants, "Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me."

  • 1 Sam 28:15
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    15 Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?" Saul answered, "I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do."

  • 1 Sam 25:21
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    21 Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

  • 1 Sam 30:15
    66%

    15 David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."

  • 1 Sam 21:1-2
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    1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no man with you?"

    2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, 'Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.'

  • Acts 26:24
    66%

    24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"

  • 1 Sam 27:5
    66%

    5 David said to Achish, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?"

  • 1 Sam 27:12
    66%

    12 Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he shall be my servant forever."

  • Job 6:22
    66%

    22 Did I say, 'Give to me?' or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'

  • 1 Sam 17:43
    66%

    43 The Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

  • 1 Sam 25:11
    66%

    11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?"

  • Mark 3:21
    66%

    21 When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane."

  • Judg 19:22-23
    2 verses
    66%

    22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may have sex with him!"

    23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, "No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; since this man is come into my house, don't do this folly.

  • 1 Sam 21:8
    66%

    8 David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."

  • 1 Sam 23:11
    65%

    11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant." Yahweh said, "He will come down."

  • 2 Sam 14:15
    65%

    15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

  • 1 Sam 19:15
    65%

    15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."

  • 1 Sam 28:1
    65%

    1 It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you and your men."

  • 1 Sam 15:14
    65%

    14 Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?"

  • 2 Kgs 9:11
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    11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" He said to them, "You know the man and what his talk was."

  • 2 Sam 19:28
    65%

    28 For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?"

  • Jer 29:26
    65%

    26 Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

  • 1 Sam 22:13
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    13 Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

  • 1 Sam 22:15
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    15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more."

  • 2 Sam 16:10
    65%

    10 The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, 'Curse David;' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'"

  • Job 19:15
    64%

    15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

  • Job 17:6
    64%

    6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

  • 2 Sam 13:13
    64%

    13 I, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."

  • Job 21:28
    64%

    28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

  • 2 Sam 19:22
    64%

    22 David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For don't I know that I am this day king over Israel?"