Then said Avishai the son of Tzeru'yah to the king, *Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.*
1 Samuel 24:14 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) After whom is the king of Yisra'el come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. Common English Bible So who is Israel’s king coming after? Who are you chasing? A dead dog? A single flea? Catholic Public Domain Version So too, it is said in the ancient proverb, 'From the impious, impiety will go forth.' Therefore, my hand will not be upon you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall wickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel? |
Then said Avishai the son of Tzeru'yah to the king, *Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.*
Then was Aviner very angry for the words of Ish-Boshet, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Yehudah? This day do I show kindness to the house of Sha'ul 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.
Then David returned to bless his household. Mikhal the daughter of Sha'ul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Yisra'el today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!
He did obeisance, and said, *What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?*
Izevel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom of Yisra'el? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: I will give you the vineyard of Navot the Yizre`eli.
You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
The Pelishti said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? The Pelishti cursed David by his gods.
Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD: for the king of Yisra'el is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.