1 Samuel 21:11-15

21:11

And the servants
<05650>

of Achish
<0397>

said
<0559> (8799)

unto him, [Is] not this David
<01732>

the king
<04428>

of the land
<0776>_?

did they not sing
<06030> (8799)

one to another of him
<02088>

in dances
<04246>_,

saying
<0559> (8800)_,

Saul
<07586>

hath slain
<05221> (8689)

his thousands
<0505>_,

and David
<01732>

his ten thousands
<07233>_?

21:12

And David
<01732>

laid up
<07760> (8799)

these words
<01697>

in his heart
<03824>_,

and was sore
<03966>

afraid
<03372> (8799)

of
<06440>

Achish
<0397>

the king
<04428>

of Gath
<01661>_.

21:13

And he changed
<08138> (8762)

his behaviour
<02940>

before
<05869>

them, and feigned himself mad
<01984> (8704)

in their hands
<03027>_,

and scrabbled
<08427> (8762)

on the doors
<01817>

of the gate
<08179>_,

and let his spittle
<07388>

fall down
<03381> (8686)

upon his beard
<02206>_.

{scrabbled: or, made marks}

21:14

Then said
<0559> (8799)

Achish
<0397>

unto his servants
<05650>_,

Lo, ye see
<07200> (8799)

the man
<0376>

is mad
<07696> (8693)_:

wherefore [then] have ye brought
<0935> (8686)

him to me? {is mad: or, playeth the mad man}

21:15

Have I need
<02638>

of mad men
<07696> (8794)_,

that ye have brought
<0935> (8689)

this [fellow] to play the mad man
<07696> (8692)

in my presence? shall this [fellow] come
<0935> (8799)

into my house
<01004>_?