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 this very day we suffer both hunger, thirst, and penury: we are buffeted from place to place, as vagabonds:
2 Corinthians 11:27
expos'd to toil, to fatigue, to frequent watchings, to hunger and thirst, to frequent fastings, to cold and penury.
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
'tis true, Lord, said she: yet even puppies eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table.
Mark 7:28
she answer'd, true, Lord, yet puppys eat of the crumbs, which children drop under the table.
John 6:12
when they were filled, he said to his disciples, gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
General references
Luke 17:27
eating and drinking, marriages and matches was the business till the very day that Noah entred into the ark, when the flood came and overwhelm'd them all.