'Dogs' in the Bible

"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.

Dogs will eat the members of your family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country."' Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

Dogs will eat the members of Baasha's family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country."

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!"'"

The Lord says this about Jezebel, 'Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall of Jezreel.'

As for Ahab's family, dogs will eat the ones who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country."

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.

Dogs will devour Jezebel on the plot of ground in Jezreel; she will not be buried.'" Then he opened the door and ran away.

When they went back and told him, he said, "The Lord's word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, 'In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.

"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

Yes, wild dogs surround me -- a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

Deliver me from the sword! Save my life from the claws of the wild dogs!

Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

so that your feet may stomp in their blood, and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies' corpses."

Wild dogs will yip in her ruined fortresses, jackals will yelp in the once-splendid palaces. Her time is almost up, her days will not be prolonged.

Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate there; wild goats will bleat to one another. Yes, nocturnal animals will rest there and make for themselves a nest.

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.

"I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.

Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.

"It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs," he said.

"Yes, Lord," she replied, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."

He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs."

She answered, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

who longed to eat what fell from the rich man's table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!