⁸ Then he bowed himself, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon such ^(A)a dead dog as I?”

²⁶ But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little ^(A)dogs.”

²⁷ And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

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

¹⁴ After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? ^(A)A dead dog? ^(B)A flea? ^15 (C)Therefore let the Lord be judge, and judge between you and me, and ^(D)see and ^(E)plead my case, and deliver me out of your hand.”

⁸ Then Abner became very angry at the words of Ishbosheth, and said, “Am I ^(A)a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show loyalty to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman?

²⁰ So now, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord. For the king of Israel has come out to seek ^(A)a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”