'In The Desert' in the Bible

THEN in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the desert country of Judea,

His disciples answered him, Whence can a man here in the desert satisfy these with bread?

And the child grew, and became mighty in spirit, and was in the deserts until the days of his public exhibition to Israel.

But he himself was in the desert for retirement and prayer.

And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the desert of mount Sinai the angel of the Lord, in a flame of fire in a bush.

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;