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

By-ways

General references

Bible References

Shamgar

Judges 3:31
And after him was Shamgar, son of Anath; and he will smite the Philistines, six hundred men with an ox-goad; and he also will deliver Israel

Jael

Judges 4:17
And Sisera fled upon his feet to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber, the Kenite: for peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

The highways

Leviticus 26:22
And I sent upon you the beast of the field, and it bereaved you of children, and cut off your cattle, and, diminished you, and your ways were laid waste.
2 Chronicles 15:5
And in these times no peace to him going out, and to him coming in, for much consternation upon all inhabiting the lands.
Isaiah 33:8
The highways lay waste, the traveler passing by, ceased: he brake the covenant, he despised the cities, he reckoned them not men.
Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion mourn from none coming to the appointment: all her gates being desolated: her priests groaning, her virgins grieved, and it is bitterness to her.
Lamentations 4:18
They hunted our steps from going in our broad places: our end drew near, our days were completed; for our end came.
Micah 3:12
For this, on account of you Zion shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins, and the mountain of the house for the heights of the forest.

By-ways

Psalm 125:5
And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.

General references

Deuteronomy 28:19
Cursed thou in thy coming in, and cursed thou in thy going out