64 Bible Verses about Beggars

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2 Kings 6:26

And the king of Israel will be passing by upon the wall, and a woman cried out to him, saying, Save, O lord the king.

Luke 16:3

And the steward said in himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away the stewardship from me: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

2 Kings 8:3-5

And it will be from the end of seven years, and the woman will turn back from the land of the rovers, and come to cry to the king for her house and for her field. And the king Speaking to Gehazi the boy of the man of God, saying, Relate now to me all the great things which Elisha did. And it will be, he relating to the king how he restored the dead to life, and behold, the woman whom he restored to life her son, cried to the king for her louse and for her field. And Gehazi:will say, O lord the king, this the woman and this her son whom Elisha restored to life.

Job 19:16

I called to my servant and he will not answer; I shall entreat him with my mouth.

Job 24:4-5

They will turn the needy from the Way: the poor of the earth hid themselves together. Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.

Job 29:11-12

If the ear heard, and it will pronounce me happy; and the eye saw, and it will testify to me: For I shall deliver the poor crying, and the orphan, and none helping to him.

Psalm 109:10

And shaking his sons shall wander about, and they asked and sought from their desolations.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the suckling adhered to his palate in thirst: the young children asked for bread, none breaking bread to them.

1 Samuel 15:25

And now, take away now, my sin, and turn back with me, and I will worship to Jehovah.

2 Samuel 14:4

And the woman, the Tekoite, will speak to the king and fall upon her face to the earth, and worship him, and say, Save, O king!

2 Kings 1:13

And he will turn back and send a captain of the third fifty and his fifty. And the captain of the third fifty will go up and come and bend upon his knees before Elijah, and make supplication to him, and speak to him, O man of God, shall my soul now be precious, and the soul of these fifty, thy servants, in thine eyes?

Job 30:28

I went darkened without warmth: I rose up, I shall cry in the convocation.

Matthew 18:26-32

Then the servant, having fallen, worshipped him, saying, Lord, be slow to anger towards me, and I will give back all to thee. And the lord of that servant, having felt compassion, loosed him, and let go to him the money lent. But that servant having come, found one of his fellow-servants who owed him one hundred drachmas, and having seized, he choked him, saying, Give back to me what thou owest.read more.
Then his fellow-servant having fallen at his feet besought him, saying, Be slow to anger towards me, and I will give back all to thee. . And he would not; but having departed he cast him into prison till he should give back that being owed. And his fellow-servants having seen the thing done, were greatly grieved, and having come, made known to their lord all things done. Then his lord, having called him, said unto him, O thou evil servant, I let go to you all that debt since thou besoughtest me:

Mark 10:46

And they come into Jericho: and he going out from Jericho, and his disciples, and a sufficient crowd, Bartimeus the blind, son of Timms, sat by the way asking alms.

Luke 18:35

And it was in his drawing near to Jericho, a certain blind sat by the way, begging:

Luke 16:20-21

And there was a certain beggar, Lazarus by name, who was cast at his gate, having been wounded, And eagerly desirous to be fed from crumbs falling from the rich one's table: but also the dogs, coming, licked off his wounds.

John 9:8

Then the neighbors, and those seeing him before that he was blind, said, Is not this he sitting and begging?

Acts 3:2-3

And a certain man, being lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they set in the day at the door of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms from those going into the temple; Who having seen Peter and John about going into the temple asked to receive alms.

Isaiah 58:6-7

Is not this the fast I shall choose? to loose the bands of injustice, to shake off the bundles of the yoke, and to send away the broken free, and ye shall break every yoke? Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry, and thou shalt bring the wandering poor to thy house? when thou shalt see the naked and cover him; and thou shalt not hide from thy flesh.

Deuteronomy 15:11

For the needy shall not cease from the midst of thy land: for this I command thee, saying, Opening, thou shalt open thy hand to thy brother, to thy afflicted and to thy needy in thy land.

Proverbs 31:9

Open thy mouth; judge justly, and contend for the poor and needy.

Luke 6:30

And to every one asking thee, do thou give; and from him taking away thy things, re-demand not.

Exodus 2:23

And it will be in these many days, and the king of Egypt will die: and the sons of Israel will groan, from the work; and they will cry out, and their supplication will go up to God from the work.

Joshua 24:7

And they will cry to Jehovah, and he will put darkness between you and between Egypt, and he will bring the sea upon him, and will cover him; and your eyes will see what I did in Egypt; and ye shall dwell in the desert many days.

Judges 4:3

And the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah; for nine hundred chariots of iron to him; and he pressed the sons of Israel by force twenty years.

Judges 6:6

And Israel will be enfeebled from the face of Midian; and the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 14:11

And Asa will call to Jehovah his God, and he will say, O Jehovah, nothing with thee to help between many to those of no power: help us, O Jehovah our God, for upon thee we relied, and in thy name we came against this multitude. O Jehovah, thou our God; man shall not detain with thee.

Amos 7:5

And saying, O Lord Jehovah, cease now: who shall cause Jacob to rise? for he is small.

Psalm 18:6

In my straits I will call upon Jehovah, and to my God will I cry: he will hear my voice from his temple, and my cry will come before him into his ears.

2 Samuel 24:10

And the heart of David will strike him after he thus reviewed the people. And David will say to Jehovah, I sinned greatly in what I did: and now, O Jehovah, now pass by the iniquity of thy servant, for I was very foolish.

1 Chronicles 21:8

And David will say to God, I sinned greatly that I did this word: and now cause to pass away now the iniquity of thy servant, for I acted very foolishly.

Psalm 28:2

Hear the voice of my supplications in my crying to thee, in my lifting up my hands to the oracle of thy holy place.

Jonah 2:2

And he will say, I called out of straits to me to Jehovah, and he will answer me; from the belly of hades I cried for help, thou heardest my voice.

Habakkuk 1:2

How long, O Jehovah, did I cry for help, and thou wilt not bear? I will cry to thee violence, and thou wilt not save.

Luke 16:27

And he said, Then I ask thee, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:

Matthew 14:35-36

And the men of the place, having known him, sent into the whole country round about, and brought to him all those having evils: And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were saved from danger.

Mark 6:56

And wherever he went, in towns, or cities; or fields, they set the sick in the market places, and besought him that they might even touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched him were saved.

Matthew 8:31

And the evil spirits besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.

Mark 5:12

And all the demons besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we might enter into them.

Luke 8:32

And a herd of numerous swine was there feeding on the mount: and they besought him that he would permit them to come into the swine. And he permitted them.

Matthew 15:22

And, behold, a woman, a Canaanite, having come forth from those boundaries, cried out to him, saying, Pity me, Lord, son of David; my daughter is badly possessed with an evil spirit.

Mark 7:26

And the woman was a Grecian, a Syrophenician by birth; and she entreated him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

Mark 7:32

And they bring to him a deaf one, tongue-tied; and they beseech him that he would put the hand upon him.

Mark 10:47

And having heard that it is Jesus the Nazarite, he began to cry, and to say, Son of David, O Jesus, compasaionate me.

Luke 5:12

And it was in his being in one of the cities, and behold a man full of leprosy: and having seen Jesus, having fallen upon the face, supplicated him, saying, Lord, if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me.

Mark 1:40

And a leprous one came to him, beseeching him, and supplicating him on his knees, and saying to him, That if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me.

Luke 8:28

And having seen Jesus and cried out, he fell before him, and with a great voice said, What to me and thee, Jesus, Son of God most high? I implore thee, thou wouldst not torment me.

Luke 9:38-40

And, behold, a man from the crowd cried out, saying, Teacher, I implore thee look upon my son: for he is my only born. And, behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out; and it tears him with foam, and with difficulty withdraws from him, bruising him. And I implored thy disciples that they cast it out; and they could not.

John 4:47

He, having heard that Jesus was come from Judea to Galilee, went away to him, and asked him that he would go down and heal his son: for he was about to die.

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Beggars » General references to

1 Samuel 2:8

Raising up the weak from the dust, he will raise up the needy from the dung-hill to sit with the noble, and he will cause them to inherit a throne of glory, for to Jehovah the castings of the earth, and he will put the habitable globe upon them.

Psalm 109:10

And shaking his sons shall wander about, and they asked and sought from their desolations.

Beggars » Examples of

John 9:8

Then the neighbors, and those seeing him before that he was blind, said, Is not this he sitting and begging?

Acts 3:2

And a certain man, being lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they set in the day at the door of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms from those going into the temple;

Mark 10:46

And they come into Jericho: and he going out from Jericho, and his disciples, and a sufficient crowd, Bartimeus the blind, son of Timms, sat by the way asking alms.

Luke 16:20

And there was a certain beggar, Lazarus by name, who was cast at his gate, having been wounded,

Beggars » The children of the wicked

Luke 16:3

And the steward said in himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away the stewardship from me: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

Psalm 109:10

And shaking his sons shall wander about, and they asked and sought from their desolations.

Beggars » Instances of » Lazarus

Luke 16:20-22

And there was a certain beggar, Lazarus by name, who was cast at his gate, having been wounded, And eagerly desirous to be fed from crumbs falling from the rich one's table: but also the dogs, coming, licked off his wounds. And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried;

Beggars » Instances of » The lame man

Acts 3:2-5

And a certain man, being lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they set in the day at the door of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms from those going into the temple; Who having seen Peter and John about going into the temple asked to receive alms. And Peter, having looked intently upon him with John, said, Look upon us. read more.
And he fixed his attention upon them, expecting to receive something of them.

Beggars » Instances of » Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46

And they come into Jericho: and he going out from Jericho, and his disciples, and a sufficient crowd, Bartimeus the blind, son of Timms, sat by the way asking alms.

Beggars » Not the seed of the righteous

Beggars » Instances of » The blind man

John 9:8

Then the neighbors, and those seeing him before that he was blind, said, Is not this he sitting and begging?

Beggars » Set among princes

1 Samuel 2:8

Raising up the weak from the dust, he will raise up the needy from the dung-hill to sit with the noble, and he will cause them to inherit a throne of glory, for to Jehovah the castings of the earth, and he will put the habitable globe upon them.

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