Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Bible References

General references

Psalm 37:25
I have been young and now I am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned
or his children begging for bread.
Genesis 4:12
If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
2 Samuel 3:29
May it hang over Joab’s head and his father’s whole house, and may the house of Joab never be without someone who has a discharge or a skin disease, or a man who can only work a spindle, or someone who falls by the sword or starves.”
2 Kings 5:27
Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever.” So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased—white as snow.
Job 24:8
Drenched by mountain rains,
they huddle against the rocks, shelterless.
Job 30:3
Emaciated from poverty and hunger,
they gnawed the dry land,
the desolate wasteland by night.
Isaiah 16:2
Like a bird fleeing,
forced from the nest,
the daughters of Moab
will be at the fords of the Arnon.

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