1 Samuel 21:14

Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?

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KJV

Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?

ASV

Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad; wherefore then have ye brought him to me?

YLT

And Achish saith unto his servants, `Lo, ye see a man acting as a madman; why do ye bring him in unto me?

DBT

And Achish said to his servants, Behold, ye see the man is mad: why did ye bring him to me?

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Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years.

Clement of Rome· Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapters 3-4, 99patristic

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And Achish said, "Have you seen the man who is insane," etc.? David, indeed, suspected by the Gittites due to his reputation for virtues, industriously imitated the actions of one who was mad, so that he might be thought to be possessed and, pitied by …

Bede· Commentary on Samuel, 735patristic

Then said Achish to his servants, lo, you see the man is mad,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

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About this book

David Slays Goliath — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
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- Deuteronomy 16:19
  Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
- Exodus 23:8
  Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
- Proverbs 17:23
  A wicked man takes a covert bribe to subvert the course of justice.
- Deuteronomy 28:33–34
  A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
- 1 Samuel 8:3
  But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

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