Thematic Bible: Desert


Thematic Bible



He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; it was He who brought water for you out of the flinty rock. Verse ConceptsFlintClimates, Typesdrought, physicalSnakesSuffering, HardshipThirstAnimals, Types OfGod Providing WaterDry PlacesProvision From RocksScorpions


“For he will be like a shrub in the [parched] desert;
And shall not see prosperity when it comes,
But shall live in the rocky places of the wilderness,
In an uninhabited salt land.
Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsDry PlacesLiving In The WildernessEmpty By NatureSourness

The goat shall carry on itself all their (the Israelites) wickedness, carrying them to a solitary (infertile) land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness. Verse ConceptsCarrying SinPreparing For Actionliberation

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord,

“I remember [earnestly] the lovingkindness and devotion of your youth,
Your time of betrothal [like that of a bride during the early years in Egypt and again at Sinai],
When you followed Me in the wilderness,
Through a land not sown.
Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodKnowing God, Effects OfLoyaltyMarriage, Between God And His PeoplePolygamyRejection Of God, Results OfUnity, God's Goal OfWivesYouthCovenant RelationshipsYouthful DevotionFollowing GodGod Remembering DevotionMarriage To GodBetrothal, Spiritual


“They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord
Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and of pits,
Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death],
Through a land that no man passed through
And where no man lived?’
Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtBarren, LandDesertsWildernessDry PlacesDarkness During DaytimeEmpty By NatureWhere Is God?God Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;
The Arabah (desert) will shout in exultation and blossom
Like the autumn crocus.
Verse ConceptsDesertsBeauty, In NatureWaste Places RestoredAutumnBlossomingBlessing In The WildernessRejoicing In ProsperityRosesspringtime