Topic
Highways
32 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Isaiah 11:16Nave · Torrey FIGURATIVE
And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
- Isaiah 40:3Nave · Torrey FIGURATIVE
¶ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
- Isaiah 40:4Nave · Torrey FIGURATIVE
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
- Matthew 3:3Nave · Torrey FIGURATIVE
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
- Matthew 7:13Nave · Torrey FIGURATIVE
¶ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
- Matthew 7:14Nave · Torrey FIGURATIVE
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
- Genesis 49:17Torrey INFESTED WITH — Serpents
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
- Leviticus 26:22Torrey Desolation of, threatened as a punishment
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
- Numbers 20:17Torrey Called the king's highway
Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we…
- Numbers 20:19Torrey Roads for public use
And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
- Deuteronomy 2:27Torrey Roads for public use
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
- Deuteronomy 19:2Torrey Made to all cities of refuge
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
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- Deuteronomy 19:3 Torrey Made to all cities of refuge
- Judges 5:6 Torrey By-paths more secure in times of danger
- Judges 20:32 Torrey Generally broad
- Judges 20:45 Torrey Generally broad
- 1 Samuel 6:12 Torrey Generally straight
- 1 Kings 13:24 Torrey INFESTED WITH — Wild beasts
- Proverbs 16:17 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Isaiah 33:8 Torrey Desolation of, threatened as a punishment
- Isaiah 35:8–10 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Isaiah 35:8 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of the way of holiness
- Isaiah 35:9 Torrey INFESTED WITH — Wild beasts
- Isaiah 43:19 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the gospel
- Isaiah 62:10 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of facilities for the restoration of the Jews
- Jeremiah 3:2 Torrey INFESTED WITH — Robbers
- Jeremiah 18:15 Torrey Often obstructed
- Jeremiah 31:21 Torrey Marked out by heaps of stones
- Matthew 20:30 Torrey Beggars sat by sides of
- Mark 10:46 Torrey Beggars sat by sides of
- Luke 10:30–33 Torrey INFESTED WITH — Robbers
- John 14:6 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of Christ
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 8 references, grouped by sub-topic
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 34 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Roads for public use Nu 20:19; De 2:27
- Called the king's highway Nu 20:17
- Marked out by heaps of stones Jer 31:21
- Generally broad Jud 20:32,45; Mt 7:13
- Generally straight 1Sa 6:12; Isa 40:3
- Made to all cities of refuge De 19:2,3
- Often made in deserts Isa 40:3
- INFESTED WITH
- Serpents Ge 49:17
- Wild beasts 1Ki 13:24; Isa 35:9
- Robbers Jer 3:2; Lu 10:30-33
- Beggars sat by sides of Mt 20:30; Mr 10:46
- Often obstructed Jer 18:15
- All obstructions removed from, before persons of distinction Isa 40:3,4; Mt 3:3
- By-paths more secure in times of danger Jud 5:6
- Desolation of, threatened as a punishment Le 26:22; Isa 33:8
- ILLUSTRATIVE
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896); Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.