17 Bible Verses about Living In The Wilderness

He will be like a bush in the desert, and he won't see when good comes. He will dwell in parched places in the wilderness, a land of salt, without inhabitants.

The male goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat is to be brought alive into the LORD's presence to make atonement for himself. Then he is to send it into the wilderness."

It's better to live in the wilderness than to live with a contentious and irritable woman.

Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude

Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.

May the nomads bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the various people who live in the desert;

Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, all those who live in the desert and shave the corners of their beard; indeed all the other nations that are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel that is uncircumcised of heart."

God was with the boy as he grew up. He settled in the wilderness and became an expert archer.

Later he settled in the desert area of Paran, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Jehoiada's son Benaiah then approached Joab, attacked him, killed him, and had him buried at Joab's home in the wilderness.

About this time, John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the Judean wilderness,

John was baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

and Annas and Caiaphas high priests, a message from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.

Now the child continued to grow and to become spiritually strong. He lived in the wilderness until the day he appeared in Israel.

to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

because Jesus was in the process of ordering the unclean spirit to come out of the man. On many occasions the unclean spirit had seized the man, and though he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, he would break the chains and be driven by the demon into deserted places.