Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
Shamgar
Jael
The highways
By-ways
General references
Bible References
Shamgar
Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.
Jael
Judges 4:17
But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
The highways
Leviticus 26:22
And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.
2 Chronicles 15:5
In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.
Isaiah 33:8
The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man.
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly.
Lamentations 4:18
They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.
Micah 3:12
Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
By-ways
Psalm 125:5
But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!
General references
Deuteronomy 28:19
Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.