In Mosiah 12:2, there is a simile curse advanced by Abinadi regarding king Noah:
Thus saith the Lord, it shall come to pass that this generation, because of their iniquities, shall be brought into bondage, and shall be smitten on the cheek; yea, and shall be driven by men, and shall be slain; and the vultures of the air, and the dogs, yea, and the wild beasts shall devour their flesh.
According to Alan Goff, since the Book of Mormon is supposed to be a product of an ancient Israelite culture, we might look to the Bible to see some meaning of this passage. The faithful Book of Mormon student should realize that both Hebrew narrative and biblical narrative relish repetition. Thus, one should look to instances in the Bible where a king and his people are judged sufficiently wicked to have dogs and fowl lick their blood and eat their flesh.
Only the most wicked monarchial characters in the Bible deserved such punishment. Elijah prophesied that Jezebel would be eaten by dogs (1 Kings 21:23), and the text describes the fulfillment (2 Kings 9:8-10). Likewise, the punishment is foretold of Ahab (1 Kings 21:19,24) and is fulfilled (1 Kings 22:37-38). The same prediction was made of Jeroboam and his house (1 Kings 14:10-11). The king-figure who was a stand-in for king Saul, Nabal, had a similar imprecation pronounced against him by David (1 Samuel 25:22,34), which is also notable because Nabal was from the house of Caleb; the wordplays throughout the chapter on Caleb and keleb, "dog," are noteworthy. Because of these predictions, the reader can connect wicked king Noah in the Book of Mormon with the wicked kings of northern Israel.
But the allusions don't just stop there. Abinadi's judgment doesn't just pertain to Noah, but to all his people. The punishment of having dogs and fowls lick the blood and eat the flesh applies not only to kings and their dynasties but to their subjects also. Jeremiah foretells the punishment for Judah. They will be exiled, an exile that specifically invokes the figures of Moses and Samuel (Jeremiah 15:1). The punishment for neglecting God's law is famine, captivity, and the sword: "I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy" (Jeremiah 15:3). [See the commentary on Mosiah 11:27; 12:1; 12:3; 12:11] [Alan Goff, "Uncritical Theory and Thin Description: The Resistance to History," in Review of Books on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 7, Num. 1, F.A.R.M.S., 1995, p. 206]