⁸ He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?"

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

¹⁴ After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

¹⁵ Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.

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

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

²⁰ Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.

⁸ Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day do I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman.