17 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.

But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.

And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.