Topic
Beggar, Begging
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Leviticus 19:10Smith
And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 25:5Smith
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
- Leviticus 25:6Smith
And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
- Deuteronomy 14:29Smith
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine…
- Deuteronomy 24:19Smith
¶ When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of…
- Deuteronomy 26:12Smith
¶ When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
- Psalms 109:10Smith
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
- Mark 10:46Smith
¶ And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimæus, the son of Timæus, sat by the highway side begging.
- Luke 16:20Smith
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
- Acts 3:2Smith
And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 10 references
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.