61 Bible Verses about Roads

When the king of Egypt let the people go God did not take them on the road that goes up the coast to Philistia, although it was the shortest way. God thought: I do not want the people to change their minds and return to Egypt when they see that they are going to have to fight. He led them by way of the desert by the Red Sea. The Israelites were armed for battle.

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country to Ephesus, and found some disciples.

The angel of Jehovah found Hagar near a spring in the desert. It was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

Please permit us to pass through your land. We, including our cattle, will not leave the road or go into your fields or vineyards. We will not drink from your wells. We will stay on the main (king's) road until we are out of your territory.'

It is only an eleven-day journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

Jehovah threw them into confusion before Israel. They were killed in a great battle at Gibeon. They were chased along the road that goes up to Beth-horon. They were slaughtered all the way to Azekah, and Makkedah. As they fled from Israel, and were going down to Beth-horon, Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them all the way to Azekah and they died. In fact hailstones killed more than the children of Israel killed using their swords.

They said: The yearly festival of Jehovah at Shiloh is coming soon. (Shiloh is north of Bethel, south of Lebonah, and east of the road between Bethel and Shechem.)

The men of Israel and Judah shouted and ran after them. They pursued them all the way to Gath and to the gates of Ekron. The Philistines fell wounded all along the road that leads to Shaaraim, as far as Gath and Ekron.

My heart cries out for Moab! The people have fled to the town of Zoar, and to Eglath Shelishiyah. Some climb the road to Luhith. They weep as they go. Some escape to Horonaim, grieving loudly.

The Lord said to him, Arise, and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus for he is praying.

King Zedekiah gave the command to have Jeremiah put in the courtyard of the prison. He gave him a loaf of bread every day from the bakers' street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the prison.

Speak of it, you who ride on white donkeys, sitting on saddles. You that must walk wherever you go.

Elisha left Jericho to go to Bethel. On the way some boys came out of a town and taunted and made fun of him. They shouted: Get out of here, baldy!

On the way a man came to him and said: I will follow you wherever you go.

Jesus answered: A man traveled from Jerusalem to Jericho. He fell among robbers. They stripped him, beat him and left him half dead. A priest traveled on that road. When he saw him he passed by on the other side. When a Levite came to the place he saw the man and passed by on the other side.read more.
Then a Samaritan arrived where he was. He was moved with compassion when he saw him.

On their way, they came to a body of water and the eunuch said, See, here is water. What prevents me from getting baptized?

They said to each other: Were our hearts not burning within us? When he spoke to us in the way and opened the scriptures to us?

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

They traveled to Capernaum. When they were in the house he asked them: What were you talking about on the way?

Carry no purse, no wallet, and no shoes; and greet no man on the way.

Then you will answer, we ate and drank with you. You taught in our town!

Eli was very worried about the Ark of the Covenant. He sat besides the road staring. When the man spread the news throughout the town everyone cried out in fear.

He would rise early in the morning and stand by the road at the city gate. When someone came there with a dispute that he wanted the king to settle, Absalom would call him over and ask him where he was from. After the man told him what tribe he was from,

So the prophet went away, and pulling his headband over his eyes to keep his face covered. He took his place by the road waiting for the king.

You should not see your brothers donkey or his bull fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them. Help him lift it to its feet.

Cursed is the man who misleads a blind person on the road. And all the people answer: Amen.

Jehovah of Hosts said: Old men and old women walk with the help of canes in the streets of Jerusalem. They sit in the city square. The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing there in the streets.

He came closer to Jericho where a blind man sat begging by the side or the road.

Go then, to the main roads, and invite all those whom you see to come to the feast.' They went to the roads and brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike. And the banquet room was filled with guests.

The servant returned and conveyed this to his master. The master was furious. He commanded his servant to hurry into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame. The servant soon told his master, 'Your order has been carried out but there is still more room.' The master told the servant, 'Go to the country roads and lanes and make people come so my house will be full.'

The stranger has not lodged in the street for I have opened my doors to the traveler.

Do not pray like the hypocrites! They want everyone to see them in the houses of worship and on the street corners. I assure you they have been paid in full.

Ahaz collected the utensils in God's Temple. He cut them up and closed the doors to Jehovah's Temple. He made altars for himself on every corner in Jerusalem.

We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as our ancestors, our king and our leaders, and we used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.

You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away. Truth has fallen in the street, and honesty cannot come in.

People of Jerusalem, run through your streets! Look around and see for yourselves! Search the marketplaces! Can you find one person who does what is right and tries to be faithful to God? If you can, Jehovah will forgive Jerusalem.

Then we went away from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us. He gave us salvation from our enemies and those who were waiting to attack us on the way.

He went on his way. A lion met him on the road and jumped him and killed him. His dead body was stretched in the road with the donkey by its side. The lion was by the body.

I would not make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might attack us on the way. We said to the king: The hand (power) (protection) of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who have turned away from him.

The lazy man says: There is a lion outside. I will be killed in the streets.

When I want to heal my people Israel and make them prosperous again, all I can see is their wickedness and the evil deeds of Samaria. They cheat one another. They break into houses and steal. They actually rob people in the streets.

Destruction is everywhere. Oppression and fraud never leave the streets.

The chariots wildly race through the streets. They rush to and fro in the broad ways. They look like torches and they run like lightning.

Whoever goes out of your house into the street will be responsible for his own life. We will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is laid on him.

Do not go out into the field. Do not walk on the road. The enemy has a sword and terror is on every side.

As marauders lie in ambush for a man, so do bands of priests. They murder on the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

You are Jehovah's people, but you made him terribly angry, and he struck you with his mighty arm. Mountains shook, and dead bodies covered the streets like garbage. Jehovah is still angry. He is ready to strike you again.

Their brave men cry aloud in the streets; the messengers (ambassadors) of peace weep bitterly. The highways are deserted, no travelers are on the roads. The treaty is broken and its witnesses are despised. No one is respected.

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of every street. They are like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the rage of Jehovah and the rebuke of your God.

Listen to Jehovah the God of Hosts, the Almighty: Wailing will be in all the broad ways. They will say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! They will call the farmer to mourning, and the professional mourner to lamentation and crying.

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted. Travelers used the back roads.

Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the market places.

This is what Jehovah says: 'You have said that this place is ruined and that no people or animals live in it. It is true! The cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem are deserted. No people or animals live there. But once again you will hear,

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.

I have destroyed nations! Their battlements are completely destroyed! I have made their streets waste so that none pass by. I destroyed the people and the cities so that there is no inhabitant.

You that live in Aroer stand by the road and wait. Ask those who are running away, say, 'What has happened?'

A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for Jehovah. Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

There will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant of his people who will be left. This will be as it was for Israel when they came up out of the land of Egypt.