Travellers

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Genesis 24:33 OT

  Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.” Laban said, “Speak on.”

• Exodus 2:20 OT

  He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

• Judges 19:20 OT

  The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”

• Judges 19:21 OT

  So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

• Job 31:32 OT

  (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

• Hebrews 13:2 NT

  Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

• Exodus 4:24 OT

  On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

• Luke 2:7 NT

  She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

• Luke 10:34 NT

  came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

• Genesis 19:6-8 OT

  Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself. He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good…

• Judges 19:23 OT

  The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.

• Judges 5:6 OT

  “In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.

• Revelation 2:17 NT

  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who…

• Esther 8:10 OT

  He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.

• Job 9:25 OT

  “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

• 2 Kings 4:29 OT

  Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”

• Luke 10:4 NT

  Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.

• Genesis 31:23 OT

  He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

• Deuteronomy 1:2 OT

  It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

• 2 Kings 3:9 OT

  So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.

• Exodus 20:10 OT

  but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

• Acts 1:12 NT

  Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

• Isaiah 33:8 OT

  The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.