Beggars

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• 1 Samuel 2:8Nave Set among princes

  He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them.

• Psalms 37:25Nave Not the seed of the righteous

  I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

• Psalms 109:10Nave The children of the wicked

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

• Proverbs 20:4Nave The children of the wicked

  The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

• Mark 10:46Nave INSTANCES OF — Bartimaeus

  ¶ 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 16:3Nave The children of the wicked

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

• Luke 16:20–22Nave INSTANCES OF — Lazarus

  And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died,…

• John 9:8Nave INSTANCES OF — The blind man

  ¶ The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

• Acts 3:2–5Nave INSTANCES OF — The lame man

  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; Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. And…