2 Samuel 9:8
Good News Translation
Mephibosheth bowed again and said, "I am no better than a dead dog, sir! Why should you be so good to me?"

New Revised Standard Version
He did obeisance and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon a dead dog such as I?”

Contemporary English Version
Mephibosheth knelt down again and said, "Why should you care about me? I'm worth no more than a dead dog."

New American Bible
Bowing low, he answered, “What am I, your servant, that you should pay attention to a dead dog like me?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?

a dead dog

2 Samuel 3:8 Why didst thou go in to my father's concubine? And he was exceedingly angry for the words of Isboseth, and said: Am I a dog's head against Juda this day, who have shewn mercy to the house of Saul thy father, and to his brethren and friends, and have not delivered thee into the hands of David, and hast thou sought this day against me to charge me with a matter concerning a woman?

2 Samuel 16:9 And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the king: Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? I will go, and cut off his head.

1 Samuel 24:14,15 After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea. . . .

1 Samuel 26:20 And now let not my blood be shed upon the earth before the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as the partridge is hunted in the mountains.

Matthew 15:26,27 Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs. . . .

Context
David and Mephibosheth
7And David said to him: Fear not, for I will surely shew thee mercy for Jonathan thy father's sake, and I will restore the lands of Saul the father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table always. 8He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?9Then the King called Siba the servant of Saul, and said to him: All that belonged to Saul, and all his house, I have given to thy master's son.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.

2 Samuel 3:8
Why didst thou go in to my father's concubine? And he was exceedingly angry for the words of Isboseth, and said: Am I a dog's head against Juda this day, who have shewn mercy to the house of Saul thy father, and to his brethren and friends, and have not delivered thee into the hands of David, and hast thou sought this day against me to charge me with a matter concerning a woman?

2 Samuel 16:9
And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the king: Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? I will go, and cut off his head.

2 Samuel 24:14
And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men.

2 Kings 8:13
And Hazael said: But what am I, thy servant, a dog, that I should do this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king of Syria.

2 Samuel 9:7
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