Occurrences
Mᵉçillâh occurs 26 times in 25 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (1), Judges (5), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (2), 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Psalms (1), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (8), Jeremiah (1), Joel (1)
- Numbers 20:19 — And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way (בַּֽמְסִלָּ֣ה): and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
- Judges 5:20 — They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses (מִמְּסִלּוֹתָ֔ם) fought against Sisera.
- 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 kill, as at other times, in the highways (בַּֽמְסִלּוֹת֙), of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
- 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 them from the city unto the highways (הַֽמְסִלּֽוֹת).
- Judges 20:45 — And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways (בַּֽמְסִלּ֔וֹת) five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
- 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 Beth-el, on the east side of the highway (לִמְסִלָּ֔ה) that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
- 1 Samuel 6:12 — And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway (בִּמְסִלָּ֣ה), 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 Beth-shemesh.
- 2 Samuel 20:12 — And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway (הַֽמְסִלָּ֑ה). And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
- 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 highway (הַֽמְסִלָּ֤ה) into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
- 2 Samuel 20:13 — When he was removed out of the highway (הַֽמְסִלָּ֑ה), all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 2 Kings 18:17 — And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh 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 (בִּמְסִלַּ֖ת) of the fuller’s field.
- 1 Chronicles 26:16 — To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway (בַּֽמְסִלָּ֖ה) of the going up, ward against ward.
- 1 Chronicles 26:18 — At Parbar westward, four at the causeway (לַֽמְסִלָּ֔ה), and two at Parbar.
- 2 Chronicles 9:11 — And the king made of the algum trees terraces (מְסִלּ֤וֹת) to the house of the LORD, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
- Psalms 84:5 — Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways (מְ֝סִלּ֗וֹת) of them.
- Proverbs 16:17 — The highway (מְסִלַּ֣ת) of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
- Isaiah 7:3 — Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway (מְסִלַּ֖ת) of the fuller’s field;
- Isaiah 19:23 — In that day shall there be a highway (מְסִלָּ֤ה) out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
- Isaiah 33:8 — The highways (מְסִלּ֔וֹת) lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- 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 upper pool in the highway (בִּמְסִלַּ֖ת) of the fuller’s field.
- 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 (מְסִלָּ֖ה) for our God.
- Isaiah 49:11 — And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways (וּמְסִלֹּתַ֖י) shall be exalted.
- 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 their paths (בִּמְסִלּוֹתָֽם).
- Isaiah 62:10 — Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway (הַֽמְסִלָּה֙); gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
- Jeremiah 31:21 — Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway (לַֽמְסִלָּ֖ה), even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
- Joel 2:8 — Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path (בִּמְסִלָּת֖וֹ): and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.