Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
General references
Bible References
Gave him
Deuteronomy 15:7
“If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your gates in the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother.
Deuteronomy 23:7
Do not despise an Edomite, because he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were a foreign resident in his land.
Proverbs 25:21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat,
and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry
and you gave Me something to eat;
I was thirsty
and you gave Me something to drink;
I was a stranger and you took Me in;
Luke 10:36 “Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”
Romans 12:20
But
If your enemy is hungry, feed him.
If he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
For in so doing
you will be heaping fiery coals on his head.
If he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
For in so doing
you will be heaping fiery coals on his head.
General references
Psalm 107:5 They were hungry and thirsty;
their spirits failed within them.
their spirits failed
Mark 8:3 If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”