1Sa 24:14-15, 26:20, 2Sa 3:8, 16:9, Mat 15:26-27 | ESV | STEP | After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue ? After a dead dog ! After a flea !

aSee ch. 17:43

b ch. 26:20

c[See ver. 12 above]

d ch. 25:39; Ps. 35:1; 43:1; 119:154

e ch. 24:14

fSee 1 Sam. 17:43

g ch. 9:8; 1 Sam. 24:14; [ch. 3:8]

h[Ex. 22:28]

i ch. 7:6

j[Luke 16:21]

1 Samuel 24:14-15

14 After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? ^aAfter a dead dog! ^bAfter a flea! 15 ^cMay the Lord therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and ^dplead my cause and deliver me from your hand.”

1 Samuel 26:20

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

2 Samuel 3:8

8 Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I ^fa dog’s head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.

2 Samuel 16:9

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

Matthew 15:26-27

26 And he answered, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and ⁱthrow it to the dogs.” 27 She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat ^jthe crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”