Travellers
Called way-faring men -- Jdj 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 -- Jdj 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; Jdj 19:19. Provender for their beasts of burden. -- Ge 42:27; Jdj 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. -- Jdj 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; Jdj 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 -- Jdj 19:17. Protected by those who entertained them -- Ge 19:6-8; Jdj 19:23. For security often left the highways -- Jdj 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.