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
Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless,
2 Corinthians 11:27
with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed.

Crumbs

Matthew 15:27
So she said, "Yes, Lord, for even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."
Mark 7:28
But she answered and said to him, "Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
John 6:12
And when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather the remaining fragments so that nothing is lost."

General references

Proverbs 28:6
Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.
Luke 17:27
they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed [them] all.