Highways
25 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
19 sections
- (Broad) of the Way to Destruction
- (Made in the Deserts) of Facilities for the Spread of The
- (Narrow) of the Way of Life
- All Obstructions Removed From, Before Persons of Distinction
- Beggars Sat by Sides of
- By-Paths More Secure in Times of Danger
- Called the King's Highway
- Desolation of, Threatened As a Punishment
- Figurative
- Generally Broad
- Generally Straight
- Infested With: Robbers
- Infested With: Serpents
- Infested With: Wild Beasts
- Made to all Cities of Refuge
- Marked out by Heaps of Stones
- Often Made in Deserts
- Often Obstructed
- Roads for Public Use
(Broad) of the Way to Destruction
- Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
(Made in the Deserts) of Facilities for the Spread of The
- Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
- Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
(Narrow) of the Way of Life
- Matthew 7:14 But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
All Obstructions Removed From, Before Persons of Distinction
- Isaiah 40:3–4 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert. …
- Matthew 3:3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
Beggars Sat by Sides of
- Matthew 20:30 And there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
- Mark 10:46 Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.
By-Paths More Secure in Times of Danger
- Judges 5:6 In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.
Called the King's Highway
- Numbers 20:17 Please let us pass through your land. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
Desolation of, Threatened As a Punishment
- Leviticus 26:22 I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
- Isaiah 33:8 The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
Figurative
- Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.
- Isaiah 11:16 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
- Isaiah 35:8–10 And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it — only those who walk in the Way — and fools will not stray onto it. …
- Isaiah 40:3–4 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert. …
- Matthew 3:3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
- Matthew 7:13–14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. …
Generally Broad
- Judges 20:32 “We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
- Judges 20:45 Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
- Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
Generally Straight
- 1 Samuel 6:12 And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
- Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
Infested With: Robbers
- Jeremiah 3:2 “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your …
- Luke 10:30–33 Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. …
Infested With: Serpents
- Genesis 49:17 He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
Infested With: Wild Beasts
- 1 Kings 13:24 As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
- Isaiah 35:9 No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
Made to all Cities of Refuge
- Deuteronomy 19:2–3 then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. …
Marked out by Heaps of Stones
- Jeremiah 31:21 “Set up the road markers, put up the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.
Often Made in Deserts
- Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
Often Obstructed
- Jeremiah 18:15 Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
Roads for Public Use
- Numbers 20:19 “We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”
- Deuteronomy 2:27 “Let us pass through your land; we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to the left.
Related topics
Highways of Facilities for the Restoration of the JewsHighways of ChristHighways of the Way of HolinessStraight of Righteousness, “Straight Paths”Strait Gate
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.