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 time we suffer both hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling:
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: and beside these outward troubles,
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
yet the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.
Mark 7:28
And she answered and said unto Him, True, Lord, yet the dogs under the table, eat of the children's crumbs.
John 6:12
And when they were filled, He saith to his disciples, Gather up the fragments that are left, that nothing may be lost.
General references
Luke 17:27
They were eating, drinking, marrying, and being married, till the day that Noah went into the ark: and the flood came and destroyed them all.