Beggars
1. No Law Concerning Beggars or Begging in Israel:
It is significant that the Mosaic law contains no enactment
concerning beggars, or begging, though it makes ample
provision for the relief and care of "the poor in the land."
Biblical Hebrew seems to have no term for professional
begging, the nearest approach to it being the expressions
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Set among princes
1Sa 2:8
-Not the seed of the righteous
Ps 37:25
-The children of the wicked
Ps 109:10; Pr 20:4; Lu 16:3
-INSTANCES OF
Bartimaeus
Mr 10:46
Lazarus
Lu 16:20-22
The blind man
Joh 9:8
The lame man
Ac 3:2-5...
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The poor among the Hebrews were much favored. They were
allowed to glean in the fields, and to gather whatever the
land produced in the year in which it was not tilled Le 19:10;
25:5,6; De 24:19 They were also invited to feasts. De 14:29
and Deut 26:12
The Israelite could not be an absolute pauper. His
land was in alienable, except for a cert...
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That the poor existed among the Hebrews we have abundant
evidence (Ex. 23:11; Deut. 15:11), but there is no
mention of
beggars properly so called in the Old Testament. The
poor were
provided for by the law of Moses (Lev. 19:10; Deut.
12:12;
14:29). It is predicted of the seed of the wicked that
they
shall be beggars (Ps. 37:25; 109:10).
I...
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And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by
the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and
was buried;...
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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....
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And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid
at his gate, full of sores,...
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PREVALENCE OF SICKNESS IN PALESTINE IN CHRIST'S DAY AND IN MODERN TIMES
The Gospel records tell of the presence of a multitude of sick people in the land, and how these were brought in great numbers to JESUS to be healed. "And at even . . . they brought unto him all that were diseased . . . and all the city was gathered at the door. And he healed ...
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EXPECTATlON OF SUPERNATURAL POWER TO HEAL BY A REPRESENTATIVE
OF GOD
Dr. Trumbull has called attention to a very interesting situation which he discovered in the Orient. He says:
"Another fact that sheds light upon the work of JESUS and His disciples in their ministry of healing, is the universal expectation, in the East, of the cure of disease ...
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In Eastern cities there are usually many beggars. In Old Testament times the idea of a beggar going from door to door to ask for alms was little known among the Jews. The law of Moses provided for the needy by requiring that the Jews purposely leave some of the harvest for the poor. Also mortgaged property was returned to the original owner at the ...
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