2 Samuel 9:8

2 Samuel 9:8 in other translations

What does 2 Samuel 9:8 mean?

2 Samuel 9:8 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for 2 Samuel 9:8

• 2 Samuel 16:9

  Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.

• Matthew 15:26-27

  But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.

• 1 Samuel 24:14-15

  After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

• 2 Samuel 3:8

  Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish–bosheth, and said, Am I a dog’s head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?

• 1 Samuel 26:20

  Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

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Context

• 2 Samuel 9:7

  And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.

• 2 Samuel 9:8

  And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

• 2 Samuel 9:9

  Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master’s son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.

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