17 Bible Verses about Living In The Wilderness

He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.

But the goat chosen by lot for azazel is to be presented alive before the Lord to make purification with it by sending it into the wilderness for azazel.

Better to live in a wilderness
than with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.

How far away I would flee;
I would stay in the wilderness.Selah

If only I had a traveler’s lodging place
in the wilderness,
I would abandon my people
and depart from them,
for they are all adulterers,
a solemn assembly of treacherous people.

May desert tribes kneel before him
and his enemies lick the dust.

all the kings of Arabia,
and all the kings of the mixed peoples who have settled in the desert;

Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair on their temples. All these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”

God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer.

He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and put him to death. He was buried at his house in the wilderness.

In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Wilderness of Judea

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, God’s word came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

The child grew up and became spiritually strong, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

I made the wilderness its home,
and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.