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
The next leader was Shamgar son of Anath. He too rescued Israel, and did so by killing six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.
Jael
Judges 4:17
Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite. There was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
The highways
Leviticus 26:22
I will send wild animals among you. They will rob you of your children. They will destroy your cattle, and make you so few that your roads will be deserted.
2 Chronicles 15:5
No one could come and go in peace at that time. This is because everyone living in the land had a lot of turmoil.
Isaiah 33:8
The highways are deserted, no travelers are on the roads. The treaty is broken and its witnesses are despised. No one is respected.
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion are sad. No one comes to the holy meeting. All her doorways are desolate. Her priests are sighing out of sorrow. Her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
Lamentations 4:18
They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are numbered. Our end has come.
Micah 3:12
It is your fault that Zion will be plowed like a field. Jerusalem will become heaps of ruin, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
By-ways
Psalm 125:5
Jehovah will lead those who turn away from their crooked ways with the workers of iniquity. Israel will have peace.
General references
Deuteronomy 28:19
Jehovah will curse everything you do!