Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Desiring
Crumbs
General references
Bible References
Desiring
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are ill clad and are buffeted and have no certain dwellingplace
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labour and travail, in many watches, in hunger and thirst, in many fasts, in cold and nakedness.
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
And she said, Yes, Lord, yet the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Mark 7:28
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
John 6:12
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost.
General references
Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor that walks in his perfection than he that is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.