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	Nave's—Highways

Highways

Roads for public use—Nu 20:19; De 2:27

Called the king's highway—Nu 20:17

Marked out by heaps of stones—Jer 31:21

Generally broad—Jud 20:32,45; Mt 7:13

Generally straight—1Sa 6:12; Isa 40:3

Made to all cities of refuge—De 19:2,3

Often made in deserts—Isa 40:3

INFESTED WITH

• Serpents
• —Ge 49:17
• Wild beasts
• —1Ki 13:24; Isa 35:9
• Robbers
• —Jer 3:2; Lu 10:30-33

Beggars sat by sides of—Mt 20:30; Mr 10:46

Often obstructed—Jer 18:15

All obstructions removed from, before persons of distinction—Isa 40:3,4; Mt 3:3

By-paths more secure in times of danger—Jud 5:6

Desolation of, threatened as a punishment—Le 26:22; Isa 33:8

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of Christ
• —Joh 14:6
• Of the way of holiness
• —Isa 35:8
• Of facilities for the restoration of the Jews
• —Isa 11:16; 62:10
• (Made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the
• gospel—Isa 40:3; 43:19
• (Narrow,) of the way of life
• —Mt 7:14
• (Broad,) of the way to destruction
• —Mt 7:13