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 Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath; he killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad and, like Ehud, delivered Israel.
Jael
Judges 4:17
Now Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for King Jabin of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite had made a peace treaty.
The highways
Leviticus 26:22
I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.
2 Chronicles 15:5
In those days no one could travel safely, for total chaos had overtaken all the people of the surrounding lands.
Isaiah 33:8
Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect.
Lamentations 1:4
(Dalet) The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels to the festivals. All her city gates are deserted; her priests groan. Her virgins grieve; she is in bitter anguish!
Lamentations 4:18
(Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!
Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!
By-ways
Psalm 125:5
As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the Lord remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!
General references
Deuteronomy 28:19
You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.