Lectionary Calendar
Monday, December 22nd, 2025
the Fourth Week of Advent
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Bible Concordances
Travellers
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- Called way-faring men
Judges 19:17; Isaiah 35:8 - Preparations made by, alluded to
Ezekiel 12:3,4 - Often collected together and formed caravans
Genesis 37:25; Isaiah 21:13; Luke 2:44 - Often engaged persons acquainted with the country as guides
Numbers 10:31,32; Job 29:15 - FRIENDS OF
- Often supplied them with provision
Genesis 21:14; 44:1; Jeremiah 40:5
- Sometimes accompanied them a short way
2 Samuel 19:31; Acts 20:38; 21:5
- Frequently commended them to protection of God
Genesis 43:13,14; Acts 21:5
- Frequently took leave of them with sorrow
Acts 20:37; 21:6
- Often sent them away with music
Genesis 31:27
- Often supplied them with provision
- Generally commenced their journey early in the morning
Judges 19:5 - Generally rested at noon
Genesis 18:1,3; John 4:6 - Halted at even
Genesis 24:11 - Generally halted at wells or streams
Genesis 24:11; 32:21,23; Exodus 15:27; 1 Samuel 30:21; John 4:6 - CARRIED WITH THEM
- Provisions for the way
Joshua 9:11,12; Judges 19:19
- Provender for their beasts of burden
Genesis 42:27; Judges 19:19
- Skins filled with water, wine, &c
Genesis 21:14,15; Joshua 9:13
- Presents for those who entertained them
Genesis 43:15; 1 Kings 10:2; 2 Kings 5:5; Matthew 2:11
- Provisions for the way
- Often travelled on foot
Genesis 28:10; 32:10; Exodus 12:37; Acts 20:13 - On foot, how attired
Exodus 12:11 - After a long journey, described
Joshua 9:4,5,13 - OF DISTINCTION
- Rode on asses, camels, &c
Genesis 22:3; 24:64; Numbers 22:21
- Rode in chariots
2 Kings 5:9; Acts 8:27,28
- Generally attended by running footmen
1 Samuel 25:27; 1 Kings 18:46; 2 Kings 4:24; Ecclesiastes 10:7
- Often preceded by heralds, &c to have the roads prepared
Isaiah 40:3,4; Mark 1:2,3
- Generally performed their journey in great state
1 Kings 10:2; 2 Kings 5:5,9
- Frequently extorted provisions by the way
Judges 8:5,8; 1 Samuel 25:4-13
- Before setting out gave employment, &c to their servants
Matthew 25:14
- Rode on asses, camels, &c
- Strangers civil to
Genesis 18:2; 24:18,19 - Generally treated with great hospitality
Genesis 18:3-8; 19:2; 24:24,32,33; Exodus 2:20; Judges 19:20,21; Job 31:32; Hebrews 13:2 - The caravanserai or public inn for noticed
Genesis 42:27; Exodus 4:24; Luke 2:7; 10:34 - Were frequently asked whence they came and whither they went
Judges 19:17 - Protected by those who entertained them
Genesis 19:6-8; Judges 19:23 - For security often left the highways
Judges 5:6 - Tesserae hospitales or pledges of hospitality, alluded to
Revelation 2:17 - ON ERRANDS REQUIRING DESPATCH
- Went with great speed
Esther 8:10; Job 9:25
- Saluted no man by the way
2 Kings 4:29; Luke 10:4
- Went with great speed
- Estimated the length of their journey by the number of days Which it occupied
Genesis 31:23; Deuteronomy 1:2; 2 Kings 3:9 - The Jews prohibited from taking long journeys on the Sabbath
Exodus 20:10; Acts 1:12 - Ceasing of, threatened as a calamity
Isaiah 33:8
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Bibliography Information
Torrey, Reuben Archer. Entry for 'Travellers'. Torrey's Topical Textbook. https://www.studylight.org/concordances/eng/ttt/t/travellers.html. 1897.
Torrey, Reuben Archer. Entry for 'Travellers'. Torrey's Topical Textbook. https://www.studylight.org/concordances/eng/ttt/t/travellers.html. 1897.
