So Hazael said, “But what is your servant—a dog, that he should do this gross thing?” And Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you will become king over Syria.”
So the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
Then the Lord said to him: “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria.
Then he bowed himself, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I?”
“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.
Woe to those who devise iniquity, And work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand.
Deliver Me from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog.
For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet;
And Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover.’ However the Lord has shown me that he will really die.”
But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation!
“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.