And Hazael said, "What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you are to be king over Syria."
And the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
And he paid homage and said, "What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?"
"Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog!
For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet[2] --
And Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You shall certainly recover,' but the LORD has shown me that he shall certainly die."
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Now Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.