¹⁸ You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the Lord your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are ^[a]an abomination to the Lord your God.

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

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

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!”