1 Samuel 24:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Who has the king of Israel come after? What are you chasing after? A dead dog? A single flea?

Cross References

1 Samuel 26:20

So don’t let my blood fall to the ground far from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has come out to search for a single flea,  like one who pursues a partridge in the mountains.’

2 Samuel 9:8

Mephibosheth paid homage and said, ‘What is your servant that you take an interest in a dead dog  like me? ’

1 Samuel 17:43

He said to David, ‘Am I a dog  that you come against me with sticks? ’  Then he cursed David by his gods.

1 Kings 21:7

Then his wife Jezebel said to him, ‘Now, exercise your royal power over Israel. Get up, eat some food, and be happy. For 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 remove his head! ’

2 Samuel 3:8

Abner was very angry about Ish-bosheth’s accusation. ‘Am I a dog’s head  , who belongs to Judah? ’ he asked. ‘All this time I’ve been loyal to the family of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends and haven’t betrayed you to David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!

2 Samuel 6:20

When David returned home to bless his household,  Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. ‘How the king of Israel honoured himself today! ’ she said. ‘He exposed himself today in the sight of the slave girls of his subjects like a vulgar person would expose himself.’

Hosea 10:13

You have ploughed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in your large number of soldiers,