# מְסִלָּה (mesilah) Israeli respelling: me-si-lah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H4546. 26 Old Testament occurrences. a thoroughfare (as turnpiked), literally or figuratively; specifically a viaduct, a staircase King James renderings: causeway, course, highway, path, terrace. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/mesilah-h4546 ## Occurrences - [Numbers 20:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/20/19) — And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I… - [Judges 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/20) — They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. - [Judges 20:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/31) — And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kil… - [Judges 20:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/32) — And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw… - [Judges 20:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/45) — And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pur… - [Judges 21:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/19) — Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of… - [1 Samuel 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/12) — 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… - [2 Samuel 20:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/20/12) — And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the… - [2 Samuel 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/20/13) — When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. - [2 Kings 18:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/17) — And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they… - [1 Chronicles 26:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/26/16) — To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward. - [1 Chronicles 26:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/26/18) — At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. - [2 Chronicles 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/9/11) — And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and… - [Psalms 84:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/84/5) — Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. - [Proverbs 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/17) — The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul. - [Isaiah 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/3) — Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in th… - [Isaiah 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/16) — 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… - [Isaiah 19:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/19/23) — In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and th… - [Isaiah 33:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/8) — The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man. - [Isaiah 36:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/36/2) — And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the u… - [Isaiah 40:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/3) — The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. - [Isaiah 49:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/11) — And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. - [Isaiah 59:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/7) — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in… - [Isaiah 62:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/62/10) — Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard… - [Jeremiah 31:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/21) — 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 Is… - [Joel 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/8) — Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.