¹⁴ After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? ^(A)After a dead dog, after ^(B)a single flea?

⁸ Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “^(A)Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show lovingkindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hands of David; and yet today you charge me with a guilt concerning the woman.

¹³ Then Hazael said, “But what is your servant, ^(A)who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” And Elisha ^[a]answered, “^(B)Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”