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18 Bible Verses About Dogs

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  • Exodus 22:31 has meat torn by wild animals thrown to the dogs, Job 30:1 speaks of “the dogs of my flock,” and Luke 16:21 has dogs licking a beggar’s sores.
  • Elijah’s sentence that dogs would lick Ahab’s blood and eat Jezebel (1 Kings 21:19-23) is recorded as fulfilled in 1 Kings 22:38 and 2 Kings 9:35-36.
  • “Dog” is a term of contempt in 1 Samuel 17:43, 2 Samuel 16:9, Philippians 3:2 and Revelation 22:15, and Mephibosheth calls himself “a dead dog” before David in 2 Samuel 9:8.
  • Proverbs 26:11, the dog that returns to its vomit, is quoted in 2 Peter 2:22 as “the true proverb.”
  • In Matthew 15:26-27 Jesus and the Canaanite woman use kunarion, a little dog, and she answers that even the dogs eat the crumbs from the table.

The Bible’s dogs scavenge in towns, work with flocks and lend their name to insults. Elijah says dogs will eat Jezebel (1 Kings 21:23), Job 30:1 mentions “the dogs of my flock,” and Paul warns a church, “Look out for the dogs” (Philippians 3:2). In the Gospels, dogs lick the sores of a beggar at a rich man’s gate (Luke 16:20-21), and a Canaanite woman takes Jesus’ saying about the dogs and answers that even the dogs eat the crumbs…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version. Tobit 6:2 and 11:4 are quoted from the New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition.

Strong’s Greek 2965, κύων (kyon): dog; Thayer’s entry lists Luke 16:21 and 2 Peter 2:22 as literal uses and Matthew 7:6, Philippians 3:2 and Revelation 22:15 as metaphorical. biblehub.com/greek/2965

Strong’s Greek 2952, κυνάριον (kunarion): little dog; occurs in Matthew 15:26-27 and Mark 7:27-28. biblehub.com/greek/2952

Wikipedia. “Book of Tobit”: included in the canon by Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, counted among the Apocrypha in Protestant tradition. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Tobit

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