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
Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady.
2 Corinthians 11:27
In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
And she said, Yes, Lord; for the little dogs also eat from the crumbs falling from the table of their lord.
Mark 7:28
And she answered and says to him, Yes, Lord: for also the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs.
John 6:12
And when they were filled, he says to his disciples, Gather the fragments remaining over, that nothing should be lost.
General references
Proverbs 28:6
Good the poor one going in his integrity above him perverting the ways, and he the rich.
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day which Noe came into the ark, and the overflow came, and destroyed all.