Thematic Bible: Dog
Thematic Bible
Beasts » Unclean » Dog
“Be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; throw it to the dogs.
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Dog » Epithet of contempt
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 his head off!”
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He said to David, “Am I a dog that you come against me with sticks?” Then he cursed David by his gods.
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Who has the king of Israel come after? What are you chasing after? A dead dog? A flea?
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Abner was very angry about Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I a dog’s head who belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I’ve been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends and haven’t handed you over to David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!
Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant that you take an interest in a dead dog like me?”
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Hazael said, “How could your servant, a mere dog, do this monstrous thing?”
Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”
Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”
Israel's watchmen are blind, all of them, they know nothing; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; they dream, lie down, and love to sleep. These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own gain.
He answered, “It isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to their dogs.”
Dog » Habits of » Returns to eat his own vomit
It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”
so a fool repeats his foolishness.
Dog » Figurative
Watch out for “dogs,” watch out for evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.
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Dog » Habits of » Licking blood
Then someone washed the chariot at the pool of Samaria. The dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes bathed in it, according to the word of the Lord that He had spoken.
Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you murdered and also taken possession?’ Then tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where the dogs licked Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick your blood!’”
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Dog » Dumb and sleeping
Israel's watchmen are blind, all of them, they know nothing; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; they dream, lie down, and love to sleep. These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own gain.
Dog » Habits of » Licking sores
Dog » Price of, not to be brought into the sanctuary
Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.
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Dog » Shepherd dogs
men younger than I am,
whose fathers I would have refused to put
with my sheep dogs.
Dog » Greyhound
Dog » Habits of » Lapping of
So he brought the people down to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, “Separate everyone who laps water with his tongue like a dog. Do the same with everyone who kneels to drink.”
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