Bible verses about Travellers
Scripture references about Travellers, organized by subject from the classic topical indexes of Orville Nave and R. A. Torrey.
Travellers in Torrey's Topical Textbook
- 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