Thematic Bible: Dog
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Beasts » Unclean » Dog
"You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.
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So he called the manager in and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.'
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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 off his head!"
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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.
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Who has the king of Israel come out after? Who is it that you are pursuing? A dead dog? A single flea?
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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!
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Then Mephibosheth bowed and said, "Of what importance am I, your servant, that you show regard for a dead dog like me?"
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Hazael said, "How could your servant, who is as insignificant as a dog, accomplish this great military victory?" Elisha answered, "The Lord has revealed to me that you will be the king of Syria."
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All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze. The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.
"It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs," he said.
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Dog » Habits of » Returns to eat his own vomit
They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire."
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Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
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Dog » Figurative
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
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Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!
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Dog » Habits of » Licking blood
They washed off the chariot at the pool of Samaria (this was where the prostitutes bathed); dogs licked his blood, just as the Lord had said would happen.
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Say to him, 'This is what the Lord says: "Haven't you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?"' Then say to him, 'This is what the Lord says: "In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth's blood they will also lick up your blood -- yes, yours!"'"
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Dog » Dumb and sleeping
All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze. The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.
Dog » Habits of » Licking sores
who longed to eat what fell from the rich man's table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.
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Dog » Price of, not to be brought into the sanctuary
You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.
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Dog » Shepherd dogs
"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
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Dog » Greyhound
a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.
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Dog » Habits of » Lapping of
So he brought the men down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, "Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink."
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