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 forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.
Genesis 4:12
When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”
2 Samuel 3:29
May it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who takes hold of a distaff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
2 Kings 5:27
Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Job 24:8
“They are wet with the mountain rains
And hug the rock for want of a shelter.
Job 30:3
“From want and famine they are gaunt
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
Isaiah 16:2
Then, like fleeing birds or scattered nestlings,
The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.