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
Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace,
2 Corinthians 11:27
by weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Crumbs

Matthew 15:27
And she said, Yea, Lord; for the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.
Mark 7:28
But she answered, and saith to him, Yea, Lord; even the little dogs under the table eat of the childrens crumbs.
John 6:12
And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain over, that nothing may be lost.

General references

Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.