Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Who has the king of Israel come out after? Who is it that you are pursuing? A dead dog? A single flea?
New American Standard Bible
After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing?
King James Version
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
Holman Bible
Who has the king of Israel come after? What are you chasing after? A dead dog? A flea?
International Standard Version
After whom is the king of Israel going out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog or a single flea?
A Conservative Version
After whom is the king of Israel come out? After whom do thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.
American Standard Version
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
Amplified
After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue [with three thousand men]? A dead dog, a single flea?
Bible in Basic English
After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.
Darby Translation
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a single flea.
Julia Smith Translation
After whom did the king of Israel come forth? after whom pursuest thou? after a dead dog? after one flea?
King James 2000
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
Lexham Expanded Bible
After whom did the king of Israel go out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After one flea?
Modern King James verseion
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog? After a flea?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
After whom art thou come out, thou king of Israel? After whom chasest thou? Even after a dead dog, and after a flea!
New Heart English Bible
Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
The Emphasized Bible
After whom, hath the king of Israel come forth? After whom, art thou in pursuit? After a dead dog! after a single flea!
Webster
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea?
World English Bible
Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
Youngs Literal Translation
After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? -- after a dead dog! after one flea!
Themes
Dogs » Illustrative » (dead,) of the mean
Humility » Instances of » David
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Flea
Interlinear
'achar
אחר
'achar
Usage: 488
Radaph
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 24:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
David Spares Saul In The Cave At En Gedi
13 It's like the old proverb says: 'From evil people evil proceeds.' But my hand will not be against you. 14 Who has the king of Israel come out after? Who is it that you are pursuing? A dead dog? A single flea? 15 May the Lord be our judge and arbiter. May he see and arbitrate my case and deliver me from your hands!"
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 26:20
Now don't let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord's presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge in the hill country."
1 Samuel 17:43
The Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you are coming after me with sticks?" Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
2 Samuel 9:8
Then Mephibosheth bowed and said, "Of what importance am I, your servant, that you show regard for a dead dog like me?"
Judges 8:1-3
The Ephraimites said to him, "Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us when you went to fight the Midianites!" They argued vehemently with him.
2 Samuel 3:8
These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, "Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today!
2 Samuel 6:20
When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to meet him. She said, "How the king of Israel has distinguished himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants' slave girls the way a vulgar fool might do!"
2 Samuel 16:9
Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!"
1 Kings 21:7
His wife Jezebel said to him, "You are the king of Israel! Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you."