And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Parallel translations
- WEB he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.
- BSB He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
- NKJV And He led them forth by the right way, That they might go to a city for a dwelling place.
- NASB He also had them walk on a straight way, To go to an inhabited city.
- NLT He led them straight to safety, to a city where they could live.
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Quick answer
God led the wanderers by a straight road to a city where they could settle.
Overview
In answer to their cry, the LORD guided the lost travelers along a direct path to a habitable city. The straight way contrasts with their aimless wandering and shows God as the faithful guide who brings his people home. It points to Christ, who is the way, leading his people to the city whose builder and maker is God.
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- Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
- Ezra 8:21–23Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
- Heb 11:9–10By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
- Heb 12:22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
- Ps 77:20Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
- Jer 33:10–13Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
- Neh 11:3Now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants.
- Isa 30:21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
- Isa 49:8–11Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
- Ps 107:36And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
- Ps 78:52But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
- Ps 107:4They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
- 2 Pet 2:15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
- Jer 31:38–40Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
- Isa 48:17Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
- Jer 31:24And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
- Rev 21:2–4And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- 2 Pet 2:21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
- Rev 21:10–27And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
- Jer 6:16Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
- Isa 63:13–14That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
- Ps 136:16To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Isa 35:8–10And 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.
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