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
For even to this present hour we undergo hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are buffeted about, and have no settled abode;
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labour and travail, in watchings often, in fastings frequently, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness;
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
And she said, True, Lord: yet even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table.
Mark 7:28
But she replied, and said to him, True, Lord, yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
John 6:12
And when they had made a hearty meal, he saith to his disciples, Gather up the broken bits which are left, that not a morsel be wasted.
General references
Luke 17:27
They did eat, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed them all.