Luke 15:16

And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

In Context

15Then hee went and claue to a citizen of that conntrey, and hee sent him to his farme, to feede swine.

17Then he came to him selfe, and said, Howe many hired seruaunts at my fathers haue bread ynough, and I die for hunger?

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Cross References

Job 30:4They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.

Psalms 142:4I looked vpon my right hand, and beheld, but there was none that would knowe me: all refuge failed me, and none cared for my soule.

Isaiah 55:2Wherefore doe ye lay out siluer and not for bread? and your labour without being satisfied? hearken diligently vnto me, and eate that which is good, and let your soule delite in fatnes.

Lamentations 4:5They that did feede delicately, perish in the streetes: they that were brought vp in skarlet, embrace the dongue.

Jonah 2:2And said, I cryed in mine affliction vnto the Lord, and he heard me: out of the bellie of hell cryed I, and thou heardest my voyce.

Matthew Henry on Luke 15:12-32

The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that… Read the whole commentary →

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