The word in Scripture

Highway in the Bible

The word highway appears 16 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A highway is a raised road prepared for travel. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What highway means in the Bible

A highway is a raised road prepared for travel.

Where the word highway appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word highway appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.”1 Samuel 6:12

“When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.”2 Samuel 20:13

“And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.”2 Kings 18:17

“The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.”Proverbs 16:17

“And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.”Isaiah 11:16

“And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.”Isaiah 35:8

“Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.”Jeremiah 31:21

“And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.”Mark 10:46