Bible Concordances
Highways

Torrey's Topical Textbook

• Roads for public use
  Numbers 20:19; Deuteronomy 2:27

• Called the king's highway
  Numbers 20:17

• Marked out by heaps of stones
  Jeremiah 31:21

• Generally broad
  Judges 20:32,45; Matthew 7:13

• Generally straight
  1 Samuel 6:12; Isaiah 40:3

• Made to all cities of refuge
  Deuteronomy 19:2,3

• Often made in deserts
  Isaiah 40:3

• INFESTED WITH
  • Serpents
    Genesis 49:17
  • Wild beasts
    1 Kings 13:24; Isaiah 35:9
  • Robbers
    Jeremiah 3:2; Luke 10:30-33

• Beggars sat by sides of
  Matthew 20:30; Mark 10:46

• Often obstructed
  Jeremiah 18:15

• All obstructions removed from, before persons of distinction
  Isaiah 40:3,4; Matthew 3:3

• By-paths more secure in times of danger
  Judges 5:6

• Desolation of, threatened as a punishment
  Leviticus 26:22; Isaiah 33:8

• ILLUSTRATIVE
  • Of Christ
    John 14:6
  • Of the way of holiness
    Isaiah 35:8
  • Of facilities for the restoration of the Jews
    Isaiah 11:16; 62:10
  • (Made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the Gospel
    Isaiah 40:3; 43:19
  • (Narrow,) of the way of life
    Matthew 7:14
  • (Broad,) of the way to destruction
    Matthew 7:13