2 Samuel 9:8

WEB

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

KJV

⁸And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

BSB

⁸Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”

FBV

⁸Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “Who am I, your servant, that you should pay any attention to a dead dog like me?”

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Matthew 15:26-27

²⁶But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

²⁷But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

2 Samuel 16:9

⁹Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”

¹⁴Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea? ¹⁵May the LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

1 Samuel 26:20

²⁰Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

2 Samuel 3:8

⁸Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to your father Saul’s house, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!