¹⁴ After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? ^(A)After a dead dog! ^(B)After a flea!

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 ^(A)a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

⁸ And he paid homage and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for ^(A)a dead dog such as I?”

⁴³ And the Philistine said to David, “Am I ^(A)a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

⁷ And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

⁹ Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this ^(A)dead dog ^(B)curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.”

⁸ Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I ^(A)a 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.

Gideon Defeats Zebah and Zalmunna

8 ^(A)Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely. ² And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not ^(B)the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? ^3 (C)God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” ^(D)Then their anger^[a] against him subsided when he said this.

²⁰ And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, ^(A)uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the ^(B)vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”