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1 Samuel 21:15 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

1 Samuel 21:15

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13 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.

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

15 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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1 Samuel 21:1

"Then David came 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?”"

1 Samuel 21:2

"David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’"

1 Samuel 21:3

"Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”"

1 Samuel 21:4

"The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”"

1 Samuel 21:5

"David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”"

1 Samuel 21:6

"So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before the LORD, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away."

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