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Travellers
Called way-faring men - Jud 19:17; Isa 35:8
Preparations made by, alluded to - Eze 12:3,4
Often collected together and formed caravans - Ge 37:25; Isa 21:13; Lu 2:44
Often engaged persons acquainted with the country as guides - Nu 10:31,32; Job 29:15
FRIENDS OF
- Often supplied them with provision
- Ge 21:14; 44:1; Jer 40:5- Sometimes accompanied them a short way
- 2Sa 19:31; Ac 20:38; 21:5- Frequently commended them to protection of God
- Ge 43:13,14; Ac 21:5- Frequently took leave of them with sorrow
- Ac 20:37; 21:6- Often sent them away with music
- Ge 31:27Generally commenced their journey early in the morning - Jud 19:5
Generally rested at noon - Ge 18:1,3; Joh 4:6
Halted at even - Ge 24:11
Generally halted at wells or streams - Ge 24:11; 32:21,23; Ex 15:27; 1Sa 30:21; Joh 4:6
CARRIED WITH THEM
- Provisions for the way
- Jos 9:11,12; Jud 19:19- Provender for their beasts of burden
- Ge 42:27; Jud 19:19- Skins filled with water, wine, &c
- Ge 21:14,15; Jos 9:13- Presents for those who entertained them
- Ge 43:15; 1Ki 10:2; 2Ki 5:5; Mt 2:11Often travelled on foot - Ge 28:10; 32:10; Ex 12:37; Ac 20:13
On foot, how attired - Ex 12:11
After a long journey, described - Jos 9:4,5,13
OF DISTINCTION
- Rode on asses, camels, &c
- Ge 22:3; 24:64; Nu 22:21- Rode in chariots
- 2Ki 5:9; Ac 8:27,28- Generally attended by running footmen
- 1Sa 25:27; 1Ki 18:46; 2Ki 4:24; Ec 10:7- Often preceded by heralds, &c to have the roads prepared
- Isa 40:3,4; Mr 1:2,3- Generally performed their journey in great state
- 1Ki 10:2; 2Ki 5:5,9- Frequently extorted provisions by the way
- Jud 8:5,8; 1Sa 25:4-13- Before setting out gave employment, &c to their servants
- Mt 25:14Strangers civil to - Ge 18:2; 24:18,19
Generally treated with great hospitality - Ge 18:3-8; 19:2; 24:24,32,33; Ex 2:20; Jud 19:20,21; Job 31:32; Heb 13:2
The caravanserai or public inn for noticed - Ge 42:27; Ex 4:24; Lu 2:7; 10:34
Were frequently asked whence they came and whither they went - Jud 19:17
Protected by those who entertained them - Ge 19:6-8; Jud 19:23
For security often left the highways - Jud 5:6
Tesserae hospitales or pledges of hospitality, alluded to - Re 2:17
ON ERRANDS REQUIRING DESPATCH
- Went with great speed
- Es 8:10; Job 9:25- Saluted no man by the way
- 2Ki 4:29; Lu 10:4Estimated the length of their journey by the number of days which it occupied - Ge 31:23; De 1:2; 2Ki 3:9
The Jews prohibited from taking long journeys on the Sabbath - Ex 20:10; Ac 1:12
Ceasing of, threatened as a calamity - Isa 33:8
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