Meaning
Flea David at the cave of Adullam thus addressed his persecutor Saul (1Sam 24:14): "After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea?" He thus speaks of himself as the poor, contemptible object of the monarch's pursuit, a "worthy object truly for an expedition of the king of Israel with his picked troops!" This insect is in Eastern language the popular emblem of insignificance. In 1Sam 26:20 the LXX. read "come out to See k my life" instead of "to See k a flea."
