שמואל א 21:14

Hebrew Modern Translation

ויאמר אכיש אל עבדיו הנה תראו איש משתגע למה תביאו אתו אלי׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[21:15] ויאמר אכיש אל עבדיו הנה תראו איש משתגע למה תביאו אתו אלי

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[21:15] וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אָכִ֖ישׁ אֶל־עֲבָדָ֑יו הִנֵּ֤ה תִרְאוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ מִשְׁתַּגֵּ֔עַ לָ֛מָּה תָּבִ֥יאוּ אֹתֹ֖ו אֵלָֽי ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[21:15] וַיֹּאמֶר אָכִישׁ אֶל־עֲבָדָיו הִנֵּה תִרְאוּ אִישׁ מִשְׁתַּגֵּעַ לָמָּה תָּבִיאוּ אֹתוֹ אֵלָֽי ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

is mad: or, playeth the madman, Ecclesiastes 7:7

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said Achish to his servants, lo, you see the man is mad,.... Which he said, as willing his servants should think so, and therefore rather the object of their pity than of their rage and malice; or as really believing he was so, which he and they might conclude not merely from these his actions, before described, which they might judge real and not feigned; but they might suppose this was truly his case, brought upon him by the ill usage of Saul, who pursuing him from place to place, and sending after him to take away his life, had really brought him to distraction; and this they might rather conclude from his coming to Gath, an enemy's country, and whose champion he had slain, and many others of them; which it might be thought no man in his senses would have done:

wherefore [then] have ye brought him to me? for if he was brought to be employed in his service, he seemed very unfit for it, whether in the camp, or in the court; and if to be tried and condemned as an enemy, since he was a madman, he was rather to be pitied.