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 hour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are unsettled,
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Crumbs

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

General references

Luke 17:27
They eat, they drank, they married, they were married, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all.