SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:15
¿Acaso me faltan locos, para que hayáis traído éste que hiciese de loco delante de mí? ¿había de venir éste a mi casa?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 21:15
Verse 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. Have I need of madmen ? etc.] 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 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, ( Psalm 34:1).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-15 - God's persecuted people have often found better usage from Philistine than from Israelites. David had reason to put confidence in Achish, ye he began to be afraid. His conduct was degrading, and discovere wavering in his faith and courage. The more simply we depend on God and obey him, the more comfortably and surely we shall walk throug this troublesome world __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
חסר 2638 משׁגעים 7696 אני 589 כי 3588 הבאתם 935 את 853 זה 2088 להשׁתגע 7696 עלי 5921 הזה 2088 יבוא 935 אל 413 ביתי׃ 1004
