Dog, The

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• 2 Samuel 3:8 OT

  Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of…

• Proverbs 26:17 OT

  Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

• Luke 16:21 NT

  and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

• 2 Peter 2:22 NT

  But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

• 1 Kings 14:11 OT

  The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for Yahweh has spoken it.” ’

• 2 Kings 9:35 OT

  They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

• 2 Kings 9:36 OT

  Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, “This is Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,

• 1 Kings 21:19 OT

  You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?” ’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”

• 1 Kings 22:38 OT

  They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.

• Psalms 22:16 OT

  For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

• Psalms 59:14 OT

  At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.

• Psalms 59:15 OT

  They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.

• Matthew 7:6 NT

  “Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

• Matthew 15:26 NT

  But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

• Exodus 22:31 OT

  “You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

• Isaiah 66:3 OT

  He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen…

• Deuteronomy 23:18 OT

  You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

• Job 30:1 OT

  “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

• Matthew 15:27 NT

  But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

• Judges 7:5 OT

  So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”

• Matthew 15:22 NT

  Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”

• Isaiah 56:11 OT

  Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

• Proverbs 26:11 OT

  As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

• Psalms 22:20 OT

  Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.