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Read the Full Article →After a long journey, described
Before setting out gave employment, &c to their servants
Called way-faring men
Ceasing of, threatened as a calamity
Estimated the length of their journey by the number of days which it occupied
For security often left the highways
Frequently commended them to protection of God
Frequently extorted provisions by the way
1 Samuel 25:4
1 Samuel 25:5
1 Samuel 25:6
1 Samuel 25:7
1 Samuel 25:8
1 Samuel 25:9
1 Samuel 25:10
1 Samuel 25:11
1 Samuel 25:12
1 Samuel 25:13
Judges 8:5
Judges 8:8
Frequently took leave of them with sorrow
Generally attended by running footmen
Generally commenced their journey early in the morning
Generally halted at wells or streams
Generally performed their journey in great state
Generally rested at noon
Generally treated with great hospitality
Exodus 2:20
Genesis 18:3
Genesis 18:4
Genesis 18:5
Genesis 18:6
Genesis 18:7
Genesis 18:8
Genesis 19:2
Genesis 24:24
Genesis 24:32
Genesis 24:33
Hebrews 13:2
Job 31:32
Judges 19:20
Judges 19:21
Halted at even
Often collected together and formed caravans
Often engaged persons acquainted with the country as guides
Often preceded by heralds, &c to have the roads prepared
Often sent them away with music
Often supplied them with provision
Often travelled on foot
On foot, how attired
Preparations made by, alluded to
Presents for those who entertained them
Protected by those who entertained them
Provender for their beasts of burden
Provisions for the way
Rode in chariots
Rode on asses, camels, &c
Saluted no man by the way
Skins filled with water, wine, &c
Sometimes accompanied them a short way
Strangers civil to
Tesserae hospitales or pledges of hospitality, alluded to
The caravanserai or public inn for noticed
The Jews prohibited from taking long journeys on the Sabbath
Went with great speed
Were frequently asked whence they came and whither they went