FROM TORREY’S TOPICAL TEXTBOOK (1897)

Torrey’s Topical Textbook (1897) — public domain, printed whole.

- Called way-faring men

Jud 19:17; Isa 35:8

- Preparations made by, alluded to

Eze 12:3,4

- Often collected together and formed caravans

Ge 37:25; Isa 21:13; Lu 2:44

- Often engaged persons acquainted with the country as guides

Nu 10:31,32; Job 29:15

- FRIENDS OF

. Often supplied them with provision

Ge 21:14; 44:1; Jer 40:5

. Sometimes accompanied them a short way

2Sa 19:31; Ac 20:38; 21:5

. Frequently commended them to protection of God

Ge 43:13,14; Ac 21:5

. Frequently took leave of them with sorrow

Ac 20:37; 21:6

. Often sent them away with music

Ge 31:27

- Generally commenced their journey early in the morning

Jud 19:5

- Generally rested at noon

Ge 18:1,3; Joh 4:6

- Halted at even

Ge 24:11

- Generally halted at wells or streams

Ge 24:11; 32:21,23; Ex 15:27; 1Sa 30:21; Joh 4:6

- CARRIED WITH THEM

. Provisions for the way

Jos 9:11,12; Jud 19:19

. Provender for their beasts of burden

Ge 42:27; Jud 19:19

. Skins filled with water, wine, &c

Ge 21:14,15; Jos 9:13

. Presents for those who entertained them

Ge 43:15; 1Ki 10:2; 2Ki 5:5; Mt 2:11

- Often travelled on foot

Ge 28:10; 32:10; Ex 12:37; Ac 20:13

- On foot, how attired

Ex 12:11

- After a long journey, described

Jos 9:4,5,13

- OF DISTINCTION

. Rode on asses, camels, &c

Ge 22:3; 24:64; Nu 22:21

. Rode in chariots

2Ki 5:9; Ac 8:27,28

. Generally attended by running footmen

1Sa 25:27; 1Ki 18:46; 2Ki 4:24; Ec 10:7

. Often preceded by heralds, &c to have the roads prepared

Isa 40:3,4; Mr 1:2,3

. Generally performed their journey in great state

1Ki 10:2; 2Ki 5:5,9

. Frequently extorted provisions by the way

Jud 8:5,8; 1Sa 25:4-13

. Before setting out gave employment, &c to their servants

Mt 25:14

- Strangers civil to

Ge 18:2; 24:18,19

- Generally treated with great hospitality

Ge 18:3-8; 19:2; 24:24,32,33; Ex 2:20; Jud 19:20,21; Job 31:32; Heb 13:2

- The caravanserai or public inn for noticed

Ge 42:27; Ex 4:24; Lu 2:7; 10:34

- Were frequently asked whence they came and whither they went

Jud 19:17

- Protected by those who entertained them

Ge 19:6-8; Jud 19:23

- For security often left the highways

Jud 5:6

- Tesserae hospitales or pledges of hospitality, alluded to

Re 2:17

- ON ERRANDS REQUIRING DESPATCH

. Went with great speed

Es 8:10; Job 9:25

. Saluted no man by the way

2Ki 4:29; Lu 10:4

- Estimated the length of their journey by the number of days

which it occupied

Ge 31:23; De 1:2; 2Ki 3:9

- The Jews prohibited from taking long journeys on the Sabbath

Ex 20:10; Ac 1:12

- Ceasing of, threatened as a calamity

Isa 33:8