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
And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
Jael
Judges 4:17
However 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
I will also send wild animals among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate.
2 Chronicles 15:5
And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great turmoil was upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
Isaiah 33:8
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man.
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations 4:18
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end has come.
Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.
By-ways
Psalm 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall 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.