Travellers of Distinction

17 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

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Before Setting out Gave Employment to Their Servants

Matthew 25:14 For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.

Judges 8:5 So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
Judges 8:8 From there he went up to Penuel and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of Succoth.
1 Samuel 25:4–13 While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep. …

1 Samuel 25:27 Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.
1 Kings 18:46 And the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
2 Kings 4:24 Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
Ecclesiastes 10:7 I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

1 Kings 10:2 She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan— with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.
2 Kings 5:5 “Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing.
2 Kings 5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house.

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. …
Mark 1:2–3 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.” …

2 Kings 5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house.
Acts 8:27–28 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship, …

Genesis 22:3 So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.
Genesis 24:64 And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
Numbers 22:21 So in the morning Balaam got up, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.