8 He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?"
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.
Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.
Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day do I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman.
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Commentary on 2 Samuel 9 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 9
The only thing recorded in this chapter is the kindness David showed to Jonathan's seed for his sake.
2Sa 9:1-8
Here is,
2Sa 9:9-13
The matter is here settled concerning Mephibosheth.