23 Bible Verses about Highways
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There shall be foot paths and common streets: this shall be called the holy way. No unclean person shall go through it, for the LORD himself shall go with them that way, and the ignorant shall not err.
And the Lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
I will make ways upon all my mountains, and my foot paths shall be exalted.
A voice crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight the path for our God in the desert.
Then shall there be a common way out of Egypt into Assyria. The Assyrians shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria. The Egyptians also and the Assyrians shall both have one God's service.
Go ye therefore out into the highways, and as many as ye find, bid them to the marriage.'
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are thy ways,
Go from gate to gate, and prepare the way for the people: cast up gravel, and make the way high and cleanse it of stones, and set up a banner for the people.
The streets are waste, there walketh no man therein; the covenant is broken, the cities are despised; they are not regarded,
The path of the righteous escheweth evil; and whoso looketh well to his ways, keepeth his own soul.
O sing unto God, sing praises to his name; magnify him that rideth upon the heavens, as it were upon a horse. Praise him in his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
Her houses are the way to hell, where men go down into the chambers of death.
The servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding was furnished with guests.
And thus shall he make a way for his people, that remaineth from the Assyrians, like as it happened to the Israelites, what time they departed out of the land of Egypt.
Let all valleys be exalted, and every mountain and hill be laid low. Whatso is crooked, let it be made straight, and let the rough places be made plain fields.
Then said God unto Isaiah, "Go meet Ahaz, thou and thy son Shearjashub, at the head of the over pole, in the foot path by the fuller's ground,
Get the watchman, provide teachers for thee: set thine heart upon the right way, that thou shouldest walk, and turn again, O thou daughter of Israel; turn again to these cities of thine.
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath and in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. And they that walked by paths, went by ways that set compasses about.
"'If no,' sayeth the LORD God, the God of hosts, 'there shall be mourning in all streets. Yea, they shall say in every street: alas, alas. They shall call the husbandman to lamentation; and such as can mourn, to mourning.
And therefore thus he sayeth, "Make ready, make ready, and clean the street, take up what ye can out of the way that leadeth to my people."
But my people hath so forgotten me, that they have made sacrifice unto vain gods. And while they followed their own ways they are come out of the high street, and gone into a foot way not used to be trodden.
Thus sayeth the LORD, "Go into the streets, consider and make inquisition for the old way: and if it be the good and right way, then go therein, that ye may find rest for your souls. But they say, 'We will not walk therein.'
"The voice of a crier in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."
From Thematic Bible
Highways » Figurative
This is he of whom it is spoken by the Prophet Isaiah, which sayeth, "The voice of a crier in wilderness, 'Prepare the Lord's way and make his paths straight.'"
The path of the righteous escheweth evil; and whoso looketh well to his ways, keepeth his own soul.
And thus shall he make a way for his people, that remaineth from the Assyrians, like as it happened to the Israelites, what time they departed out of the land of Egypt.
There shall be foot paths and common streets: this shall be called the holy way. No unclean person shall go through it, for the LORD himself shall go with them that way, and the ignorant shall not err. There shall be no lion, and no ravishing beast shall come therein, nor be there, but men shall go there free and safe. And the redeemed of the LORD shall convert, and come to Zion with thanksgiving. Everlasting joy shall they have, pleasure and gladness shall be among them. And as for all sorrow and heaviness, it shall vanish away.
A voice crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight the path for our God in the desert. Let all valleys be exalted, and every mountain and hill be laid low. Whatso is crooked, let it be made straight, and let the rough places be made plain fields.
Highways » Roads for public use
And the children of Israel said unto him, "We will go by the beaten way: and if either we or our cattle drink of thy water, we will pay for it, we will do no more but pass through by foot only."
'Let me go through thy land. I will go always along by the high way and will neither turn unto the right hand, nor to the left.
Highways » Desolation of, threatened as a punishment
I will send in wild beasts upon you, which shall rob you of your children and destroy your cattle, and make you so few in number that your highways shall grow unto a wilderness.
The streets are waste, there walketh no man therein; the covenant is broken, the cities are despised; they are not regarded,
Highways » Infested with » Robbers
Lift up thine eyes on every side, and look, if thou be not defiled. Thou hast waited for them in the streets, and as a murderer in the wilderness. through thy whoredoms and shameful blasphemies, is the land defiled.
Jesus answered and said, "A certain man descended from Jerusalem into Jericho; And fell into the hands of thieves, which robbed him of his raiment and wounded him, and departed leaving him half dead. And by chance, there came a certain priest that same way, and when he saw him, he passed by. And likewise a Levite, when he was come nigh to the place, went and looked on him, and passed by. read more.
Then a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came nigh unto him: and when he saw him, had compassion on him,
Highways » Illustrative » Of facilities for the restoration of the jews
Go from gate to gate, and prepare the way for the people: cast up gravel, and make the way high and cleanse it of stones, and set up a banner for the people.
And thus shall he make a way for his people, that remaineth from the Assyrians, like as it happened to the Israelites, what time they departed out of the land of Egypt.
Highways » Infested with » Wild beasts
And as he journeyed, a lion met him by the way and slew him, and his carcass lay along in the way and the ass stood thereby, and the lion stood by the corpse also.
There shall be no lion, and no ravishing beast shall come therein, nor be there, but men shall go there free and safe.
Highways » Generally straight
And the kine took the straight way to Bethshemesh, both one way, and as they went, lowed, turning neither to the righthand nor to the left. And the lords of the Philistines went after them until they came to the borders of Bethshemesh.
A voice crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight the path for our God in the desert.
Highways » Generally broad
And they turned and fled to the wilderness ward and unto the rock of pomegranates. And the other slew by the way of the rest of them, five thousand men, and sticked unto them until they came to Gidom, and slew two thousand more of them.
For the children of Benjamin thought that the other had been beaten before them, as at the first time. But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee and pluck them away from the city, unto the highways."
Highways » Illustrative » (made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the gospel
A voice crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight the path for our God in the desert.
Behold, I shall make a new thing, and shortly shall it appear. Ye shall well know it; I told it you afore, but I will tell it you again. I will make streets in the desert, and rivers of water in the wilderness.
Highways » Beggars sat by sides of
And they came to Jericho: and as he went out ofJericho, with his disciples and a great number of people, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, which was blind, sat by the highways side begging.
And behold, two blind men sitting by the wayside, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried, saying, "Master, the son of David have mercy on us."
Highways » Made to all cities of refuge
thou shalt appoint three cities in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. Thou shalt prepare the way and divide the coasts of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts that whosoever committeth murder may flee thither.
Highways » Marked out by heaps of stones
Get the watchman, provide teachers for thee: set thine heart upon the right way, that thou shouldest walk, and turn again, O thou daughter of Israel; turn again to these cities of thine.
Highways » Often obstructed
But my people hath so forgotten me, that they have made sacrifice unto vain gods. And while they followed their own ways they are come out of the high street, and gone into a foot way not used to be trodden.
Highways » Infested with » Serpents
Dan shall be a serpent in the way, and an adder in the path, and bite the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Highways » All obstructions removed from, before persons of distinction
A voice crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight the path for our God in the desert. Let all valleys be exalted, and every mountain and hill be laid low. Whatso is crooked, let it be made straight, and let the rough places be made plain fields.
Highways » Called the king's highway
let us go a good fellowship through thy country: we will not go through the fields nor through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the fountains: but we will go by the highway and neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left, until we be past thy country."
Highways » Illustrative » (broad,) of the way to destruction
Enter in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Highways » Illustrative » (narrow,) of the way of life
But strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Highways » Illustrative » Of the way of holiness
There shall be foot paths and common streets: this shall be called the holy way. No unclean person shall go through it, for the LORD himself shall go with them that way, and the ignorant shall not err.
Highways » Often made in deserts
A voice crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight the path for our God in the desert.
Highways » By-paths more secure in times of danger
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath and in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. And they that walked by paths, went by ways that set compasses about.
Highways » Illustrative » Of Christ
Jesus said unto him, "I am the way, the truth and the life. And no man cometh unto the father, but by me.