Beggars

How Nave’s arranged it

• Set among princes1 Samuel 2:8
• Not the seed of the righteousPsalms 37:25
• The children of the wickedPsalms 109:10Proverbs 20:4Luke 16:3
• INSTANCES OF
• BartimaeusMark 10:46
• LazarusLuke 16:20–22
• The blind manJohn 9:8
• The lame manActs 3:2–5
• See Poor

The passages, in Bible order (9)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 9 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 1 Samuel 2:8

   He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:81 voice

   “20. For dust is the subtle deliberation of illicit thought, which renders foul the mind in which it has settled. For what is designated by dung except the foulness and boldness of committed wickedness? Hence the prophet too, beholding the life of carnal people buried under the filth of foul deeds, says: "The beasts have rotted in their dung" (Joel 1:17). Therefore, the gifts of God are enumerated in fitting order in the conversion of the wicked.

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2. Psalms 37:25

   I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 37:251 voice

   “If you take it at face value, the meaning is obvious: in his own lifetime, David never saw the just forsaken. But a lifespan is brief, and the statement is moreover incredible. We have seen plenty of just people in this world who have been forsaken by people as soon as those just ones are persecuted by people in power. No one dares to go near them so long as they are subject to fear and injury.

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3. Psalms 109:10

   May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 109:101 voice

   Let his children be carried away wandering, and let them beg. Consider carefully: for indeed the things that follow are difficult. From that time in which the Lord was crucified, from then on the Jews are ever moved about, they do not stand in their own place. In short, it is said of Cain also: "And Cain, he says, went out from the face of God, and dwelt in the land of Nod." Now Nod is interpreted "commotion."

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4. Proverbs 20:4

   The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

   ›Commentary on Proverbs 20:41 voice

   For the most part the slothful, while he neglects to do things that are necessary, sets before him some that are difficult, but is inconsiderately afraid of others; and so, as though finding something that he may reasonably fear, he satisfies himself that he has good reason for remaining torpid. To him it is rightly said through Solomon, "The sluggard would not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in summer, and it shall not be given unto him."

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5. Mark 10:46

   Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.

   ›Commentary on Mark 10:461 voice

   “The name of the city agrees with the approaching Passion of our Lord; for it is said, And they came to Jericho. Jericho means moon or anathema; but the failing of the flesh of Christ is the preparation of the heavenly Jerusalem. It goes on: 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 wayside begging.

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6. Luke 16:3

   The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.

   ›Commentary on Luke 16:32 voices

   “(ut sup.) But he whose wishes are on earth is troubled at his departing. Hence it is added of this steward, 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. Weakness in action is the fault of a slothful life. For no one would shrink who had been accustomed to apply himself to labour.

   “You proposed a little question about the Gospel of Luke (Chapter 16, verse 1 et seq.): Who is the steward of iniquity who is praised by the voice of the Lord? When I wanted to know the reason for this and from which source it came, I examined the volume of the Gospel, and I found among other things that, as the tax collectors and sinners approached the Saviour to hear him, the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, "Why does this one receive sinners and eat with them?" (Luke 15:2).

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7. Luke 16:20–22

   And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores

   ›Commentary on Luke 16:20–221 voice

   “Lazarus was lying at the gate in order to draw attention to the cruelty paid to his body and to prevent the rich man from saying, "I did not notice him. He was in a corner. I could not see him. No one announced him to me." He lay at the gate. You saw him every time you went out and every time you came in. When your crowds of servants and clients were attending you, he lay there full of ulcers.

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8. John 9:8

   At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”

   ›Commentary on John 9:82 voices

   “The neighbors, struck by the extraordinariness of the miracle, did not believe. Although his procession to Siloam with eyes anointed with clay was for the very purpose that many would see him and afterwards would not deny it by claiming ignorance, nevertheless, even now they …

   “The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him,....

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9. Acts 3:2–5

   And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.

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   “How does he not say the name of the lame man? because even the apostles did not know him. For the man was entirely unknown to them. And this was so that they might not appear to be showing special favor, and making cures by …

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