Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Devoured

Bible References

This

Luke 15:32
It was right that we should make merry, and be glad: for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
Exodus 32:7
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get you down; for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

Devoured

Luke 15:13
And not many days later the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

General references

Genesis 18:7
And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hastened to dress it.
Jeremiah 35:16
Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people has not hearkened unto me:
Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners, and eats with them.