Travellers

Travellers

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