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Highways

 

Highways

Roads for public use - Nu 20:19; De 2:27

Called the king's highway - Nu 20:17

Marked out by heaps of stones - Jer 31:21

Generally broad - Jud 20:32,45; Mt 7:13

Generally straight - 1Sa 6:12; Isa 40:3

Made to all cities of refuge - De 19:2,3

Often made in deserts - Isa 40:3

INFESTED WITH

• Serpents
- Ge 49:17
• Wild beasts
- 1Ki 13:24; Isa 35:9
• Robbers
- Jer 3:2; Lu 10:30-33

Beggars sat by sides of - Mt 20:30; Mr 10:46

Often obstructed - Jer 18:15

All obstructions removed from, before persons of distinction - Isa 40:3,4; Mt 3:3

By-paths more secure in times of danger - Jud 5:6

Desolation of, threatened as a punishment - Le 26:22; Isa 33:8

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of Christ
- Joh 14:6
• Of the way of holiness
- Isa 35:8
• Of facilities for the restoration of the Jews
- Isa 11:16; 62:10
• (Made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the
gospel - Isa 40:3; 43:19
• (Narrow,) of the way of life
- Mt 7:14
• (Broad,) of the way to destruction
- Mt 7:13
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