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
Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
2 Corinthians 11:27
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crums which fall from their master's table.
Mark 7:28
And she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crums.
John 6:12
When they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, Gather the fragments that remain, that nothing may be lost.
General references
Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came, and destroyed them all.