17 Bible Verses about Wilderness

And Moses will remove Israel from the sea of sedge, and they will come forth to the desert of Shur; and they will go three days into the desert, and they found not water.

And they will remove from before Hiroth, and they will pass through the midst of the sea of the desert, and they will go a way of three days in the desert of Etham, and they will encamp in Marah.

And he will go there into a cave and lodge there; and behold, the word of Jehovah to him, and he will say to him, What to thee here Elijah? And he will say, Being zealous I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies: for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; they tore down thine altars, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it And he will say, Go forth and stand upon the mountain before Jehovah And behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind weakening the mountains, and breaking the rocks before Jehovah; Jehovah not in the wind: and after the wind, a shaking; Jehovah not in the shaking: read more.
And after the shaking, a fire; Jehovah not in the fire: and after the fire, a voice of light stillness. And it will be when Elijah heard, he will cover his face in his large cloak, and he will go forth and stand at the opening of the cave; and behold, to him a voice, and it will say, What to thee here, Elijah? And he will say, Being zealous, I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies, for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; thine altars they tore down, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it And Jehovah will say to him, Go, turn back to thy way of the desert of Damascus: and come and anoint Hazael for king over Aram: And Jehu, son of Nimshi, shalt thou anoint for king over Israel: and Elisha son of Shaphat, from Abel-Me-holah, It thou anoint for prophet in thy stead. And it was him escaping from the sword of Hazael shall Jelu kill: and him escaping from the sword of Jehu, shall Elisha And I left in Israel seven thousand, all the knees which bowed not to Baal, and every mouth which kissed him not And he will go from thence and find Elisha son of Shaphat, and he ploughed with twelve yoke before him, and he with the twelve: and Elijah will pass away by him, and he will cast his wide cloak to him. And he will forsake the oxen and run after Elijah, and say, I will kiss now to my father and to my mother, and I will go after thee. And he will say to him, Go, turn back; for what did I to thee? And he will turn back from after him and take a yoke of oxen and sacrifice them, and with the instruments of the oxen he boiled them the flesh, and he will give to the people, and they will eat. And he will rise and go after Elijah and serve him.

And Jehovah will say, I pardoned according to thy word: But yet I live, and the glory of Jehovah shall fill all the earth. For all the men having seen my glory and my signs which I did in Egypt and in the desert, and they will try me this ten times, they heard not to my voice. read more.
If they shall see the land which I sware to their fathers, and all despising me shall not see it And my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, and he will follow after me, and I brought him into the land which he went there; and his seed shall inherit it. And the Amalekites and the Canaanites will dwell in the valley. Tomorrow turn ye; they shall remove for you into the desert the way of the sea of sedge. And Jehovah will speak to Moses and to Aaron, saying, How long for this evil assembly, that they are murmuring against me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they are murmuring against me, I heard. Say to them, I live, says Jehovah, if not as ye spake in mine ears, so will I do to you: In this desert shall your carcasses fall; and all of you being reviewed according to all your number, from the son of twenty years and above, who murmured against me. If ye shall come in to the land which I lifted up my hand for you to dwell in it, except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun. And your little ones which ye said shall be for a prey, and I brought them in, and they shall know the land which ye rejected And you, your carcasses shall fall in this desert And your sons shall be fed in the desert forty years, and bear your fornications till your carcasses be finished in the desert According to the number of days which ye searched out the land, forty days, a day a year, a day for a year, shall ye your iniquities; forty years, and ye knew my withdrawal. I Jehovah spake, if not, I will do this to all this evil assembly setting up against me: in this desert shall they be finished, and there shall they die. And the men whom Moses sent to search out the land, and they will turn back and will murmur against him to all the assembly, to bring forth slander upon the land. And the men bringing forth evil slander of the land shall die by the blow before Jehovah. And Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, lived, from those men going to search out the land. And Moses will speak these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people will mourn greatly.

And it shall be in the second year, in the second month, in the twentieth of the month, the cloud was taken up from the dwelling of testimony. And the sons of Israel will remove for their departure from the desert of Sinai; and the cloud will dwell in the desert of Paran. And they will remove first, at the mouth of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses. read more.
And the flag of the camp of Judah will remove first according to their army: and over his army, Nashon, son of Amminadab. And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, Nethaneel, son of Zuar. And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Zebulon, Eliab, son of Helon. And the dwelling was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari removed, lifting up the dwelling. And the flag of the camp of Reuben removed according to their army, and over his army, Elizur, son of Shedur. And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai. And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph, son of Deuel. And the Kohathites removed, lifting up the holy place, and they raised up the dwelling till their coining. And the flag of the camp of the sons of Ephraim removed according to their army, and over his army, Elishama, son of Ammihud. And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur. And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan, son of Gideoni. And the flag of the camp of the sons of Dan removed, bringing up the rear to all the camps according to their army: and over his army, Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai. And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ocran. And over the army of the tribe of the sons is of Naphtali, Ahira, son of Enan. These the departures of the sons of Israel according to their army, and they shall remove. And Moses will say to Hobab, son of Raguel the Midianite, faher-in-law of Moses, We are removing to the place which Jehovah said, I will give it to you: come thou with us, and we did good to thee; for Jehovah spake good concerning Israel. And he will say to him, I will not go; but to my land, and to my kindred I will go. And he will say, Thou shalt not leave us now, for upon this thou knewest we encamped in the desert, and thou wert to us for eyes. And it being when thou shalt go with us, it being that which Jehovah will do good with us and we did good to thee. And they will remove from the mountain of God, a way of three days: and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah removed before them, a way of three days, to search out for them a rest And the cloud of Jehovah upon them the day in their removing out of the camp. And it shall be in removing the ark Moses will say, Rise, Jehovah, and thine enemies shall be scattered; and they hating thee shall flee from before thee. And in its encamping, he will say, Turn back, Jehovah, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel.

Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the desert to be tried by the devil.

And directly the Spirit casts him, out into the desert. And he was there in the desert forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with wild beasts; and messengers were serving him.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from Jordan, and was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert,

He will find him in the land of the desert, In a waste howling desolation: He will encompass him about; he will teach him, He will keep him as the pupil of the eye.