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.

General references

Bible References

Desiring

1 Corinthians 4:11
To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and we are poorly clothed, and roughly treated, and homeless;
2 Corinthians 11:27
I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

Crumbs

Matthew 15:27
"Yes, Lord," she said, "yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
Mark 7:28
But she answered him, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
John 6:12
And when they had eaten their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments left over, that nothing may be lost."

General references

Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.