1 Samuel 24:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A single flea?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog? After a flea?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁴ So who is Israel’s king coming after? Who are you chasing? A dead dog? A single flea?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ So too, it is said in the ancient proverb, 'From the impious, impiety will go forth.' Therefore, my hand will not be upon you.

1 Samuel 24:14 Cross References

1 Samuel 26:20

Now therefore, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea, like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

2 Samuel 9:8

He did obeisance and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon a dead dog such as I?”

1 Samuel 17:43

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

1 Kings 21:7

His wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

2 Samuel 16:9

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

2 Samuel 3:8

The words of Ishbaal made Abner very angry; he said, “Am I a dog’s head for Judah? Today I keep showing loyalty to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends and have not given you into the hand of David, yet you charge me now with a crime concerning this woman.

2 Samuel 6:20

David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants’ maids, as any vulgar fellow might shamelessly uncover himself!”

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots, in the multitude of your warriors,