¹⁴ Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A single flea?^(A)

⁸ The words of Ishbaal^[a] made Abner very angry; he said, “Am I a dog’s head for Judah? Today I keep showing loyalty to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends and have not given you into the hand of David, yet you charge me now with a crime concerning this woman.^(A)