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 abode, And labour, working with our own hands:
2 Corinthians 11:27
In labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
And she said, True, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table.
Mark 7:28
She answered and said to him, True, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
John 6:12
When they were filled, he saith to his disciples, Gather up the fragments which remain, that nothing be lost.
General references
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.