1 Samuel 21:14

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

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 21. David at Nob and Gath. 1 Samuel 21:1-9 (J). From one of the ancient documents; it is not clear which of the previous sections finds...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lo . Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. him . the man ( 1 Samuel 21:7 ).
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Flight of David David first of all flees to Nob, where Ahimelech supplies him with food and gives him the sword of Goliath. He next takes refu...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Then said Achish... the man is mad. — The Philistine king would look with peculiar sorrow and repulsion on a madman if, as according to Jewish trad...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXVIII. DAVID AT NOB AND AT GATH. 1 Samuel 21:1-15 . WE enter here on a somewhat painful part of David's history. He is not living so...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Food and Weapon: a Side Step 1 Samuel 21:1-15 David fled to Nob, at the north of the Mount of Olives, where Ahimelech presided over the relics...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Under such trying stress, the land itself seemed too hot to hold David, and he takes refuge in flight. The story of his period of exile, with its var...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(12) And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. (13) And he changed his behaviour before them, and f...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then said Achish to his servants, lo, you see the man is mad ,.... Which he said, as willing his servants should think so, and therefore rather the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore [then] have ye brought him to me? Ver. 14. Lo, ye see the man is mad. ] A...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

David came down to Nob, which was a cause of alarm to Ahimelech the priest, who asks why he had no man with him. It would seem from the history here...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

David Driven from Achish. B. C. 1057. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ye see the man is mad; and so were Achish and his men too, to be so soon cheated. But this must be ascribed to the wise and powerful providence of...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

David The Champion Slayer Is Humiliated Before The King Of Gath ( 1 Samuel 21:8-15 ). It can surely not be a coincidence that in this passage Davi...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 21:1 . The position of Nob cannot now be determined, only from Isaiah 10:28-33 , we gather that it was o...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 21:1 . Nob; fifteen miles west of Jerusalem, and on the road to Gath, where the wandering ark now rested. It was a little city of priests...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then came David to Nob. Almost gone It is not easy to walk with God. I. The steps of David’s declension. The first sign of what was impendin...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

DAVID 'S FLIGHT TO NOB , AND SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE PHILISTINES ( 1 Samuel 21:1-9 .). EXPOSITION DAVID 'S FLIGHT TO NOB ( 1...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

David at Gath
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad, he has gone insane; wherefore, then, have ye brought him to me?
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Ecclesiastes 7:7

¹⁴ Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad:e wherefore then have ye brought him to me?

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 21:14

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 21:14