2 Kings 8:13

WEB

¹³Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”

KJV

¹³And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.

BSB

¹³“But how could your servant, a mere dog, do such a monstrous thing?” said Hazael. And Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”

FBV

¹³“But how could someone like me who's just a ‘dog’ achieve anything like that?” Hazael asked. “The Lord has shown me that you are going to be the king of Aram,” Elisha replied.

Extra References

1 Samuel 17:43

⁴³The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

1 Kings 19:15

¹⁵The LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

2 Samuel 9:8

⁸He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

2 Kings 8:10

¹⁰Elisha said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You will surely recover;’ however the LORD has shown me that he will surely die.”

Psalms 22:20

²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

Psalms 22:16

¹⁶For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Micah 2:1

¹Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Matthew 7:6

⁶“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Jeremiah 17:9

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Revelation 22:15

¹⁵Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.