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1 Samuel 21:15
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Kekurangan orang gilakah aku, maka kamu bawa orang ini kepadaku supaya ia menunjukkan gilanya dekat aku? Patutkah orang yang demikian masuk ke rumahku?"
Iakah aku ini kekurangan orang gila, maka kamu membawa akan orang ini, supaya iapun ingar-ingar di hadapanku? Patutkah orang yang demikian ini masuk ke dalam istanaku?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Psalms 119:161 - Princes
Cross-References
The Lord visited Sara as he had promised, and did vnto her accordyng as he had spoke.
And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, whiche Sara bare hym, Isahac.
And so Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng, and tooke bread, and a bottel of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, puttyng it on her shoulder, and the lad also, and sent her away: who departing, wandered vp and downe in the wildernesse of Beer seba.
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a wel of water, which Abimeleches seruauntes had violently taken away.
And so the king of Israel toke his iourney, and the king of Iuda, and the king of Edom: And when they had compassed the way seuen dayes, they had no water for the hoast, and for the cattayle that folowed them.
O Lorde thou art my Lorde: early in the morning I do seeke thee.
The smith maketh an axe, and tempereth it with hotte coales, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with all the strength of his armes, yea sometime he is fainte for very hunger, and so thirstie that he hath no more power.
The Lordes sent their seruauntes to fetche water, and when they came to the welles, they did finde no water, but caried their vessels home emptie: they be ashamed and confounded, and couer their heades.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Have I need of madmen?.... Or fools, do I want them? have not I enough of them already at my court? I want wise men, and not fools and madmen. The Jews say w that the wife and daughter of Achish were mad; that while David was playing the fool and madman without, they were acting the same part within; so that Achish had enough of that sort of diversion, if it was to be reckoned such; as it was according to the taste of some persons, who used, as in later so in earlier times, to keep fools in their houses to make them sport; but Achish had enough of that, and too much, at least needed no more:
that ye have brought this [fellow] to play the madman in my presence? or act the part of a fool before me:
shall this [fellow] come into mine house? court or palace, and have a post there; you need be in no pain about it; he is neither agreeable to me, nor fit for any; and therefore Achish drove him away as a fool or madman, instead of imprisoning him as an enemy, or taking away his life; see the title of the thirty fourth psalm, Psalms 34:1.
w Midrash Tillim apud Abarbinel. in loc.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Samuel 21:15. Shall this fellow come into my house? — I will not take into my service a man who is liable to so grievous a disease. Chandler, who vindicates David's feigning himself, mad, concludes thus: "To deceive the deceiver is in many instances meritorious, in none criminal. And what so likely to deceive as the very reverse of that character which they had so misconstrued? He was undone as a wise man, he had a chance to escape as a madman; he tried, and the experiment succeeded." I confess I can neither feel the force nor the morality of this. Deceit and hypocrisy can never be pleasing in the sight of God.
