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Highways
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 10:30-33Beggars 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
- Of Christ
- Joh 14:6- Of the way of holiness
- Isa 35:8- Of facilities for the restoration of the Jews
- Isa 11:16; 62:10- (Made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the
gospel - Isa 40:3; 43:19- (Narrow,) of the way of life
- Mt 7:14- (Broad,) of the way to destruction
- Mt 7:13 Next Topic (Hittites)