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
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.
Mark 7:28
But she answered and says to him, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
John 6:12
And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost.
General references
Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse, double in ways, though he be rich.
Luke 17:27
they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them;