Concordance

“Wilderness” in the Bible

229 verses contain “wilderness” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 21:14 …nd sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of…
Genesis 21:20 And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
Genesis 21:21 And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Genesis 36:24 These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
Genesis 37:22 “Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and…
Exodus 3:1 …e priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of…
Exodus 3:18 …ith us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our…
Exodus 4:27 Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
Exodus 5:1 …et My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the…
Exodus 5:3 …answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the…
Exodus 7:16 …l you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not listened until…
Exodus 8:27 We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”
Exodus 8:28 Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”
Exodus 13:18 So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.
Exodus 13:20 They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
Exodus 14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’
Exodus 14:11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Exodus 14:12 …een better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the…
Exodus 16:32 …ns to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of…
Exodus 19:1 In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus 19:2 After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
Leviticus 7:38 which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus 16:10 But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement by sending it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.
Leviticus 16:21 …is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the…
Leviticus 16:22 The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.
Numbers 1:1 …gypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He…
Numbers 1:19 just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:
Numbers 3:4 … when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the…
Numbers 3:14 Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Numbers 9:1 In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
Numbers 9:5 and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Numbers 10:12 and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 10:31 “Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
Numbers 12:16 After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3 So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,
Numbers 13:21 So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
Numbers 13:26 …o Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the…
Numbers 14:2 …d died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this…
Numbers 14:16 ‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
Numbers 14:22 not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Numbers 14:25 Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
Numbers 14:29 Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
Numbers 14:32 As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14:33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:35 …h has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will…
Numbers 15:32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
Numbers 16:13 Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?
Numbers 20:1 In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
Numbers 20:4 Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?
Numbers 21:5 and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
Numbers 21:11 They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.
Numbers 21:13 … moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the…
Numbers 21:18 The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,
Numbers 21:23 …hered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against…
Numbers 24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.
Numbers 26:64 Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 26:65 For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Numbers 27:3 “Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he…
Numbers 27:14 for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those…
Numbers 32:13 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
Numbers 32:15 For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”
Numbers 33:6 They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.
Numbers 33:8 They set out from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
Numbers 33:15 They set out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 33:16 They set out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Numbers 33:36 They set out from Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
Numbers 34:3 Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and…
Deuteronomy 1:19 …ountry of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached…
Deuteronomy 1:31 and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
Deuteronomy 1:40 But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
Deuteronomy 2:1 Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.
Deuteronomy 2:7 …r hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked…
Deuteronomy 2:8 …m Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of…
Deuteronomy 2:26 So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,
Deuteronomy 4:43 Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.
Deuteronomy 8:2 …se forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not…
Deuteronomy 8:15 He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
Deuteronomy 8:16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
Deuteronomy 9:7 … and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling…
Deuteronomy 9:28 … He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the…
Deuteronomy 11:5 what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place;
Deuteronomy 11:24 Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
Deuteronomy 29:5 For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
Deuteronomy 32:51 For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
Joshua 1:4 Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
Joshua 5:4 Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.
Joshua 5:5 Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.
Joshua 5:6 For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So…
Joshua 8:15 Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.
Joshua 8:20 …escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the…
Joshua 8:24 …g all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and…
Joshua 12:8 …he hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and…
Joshua 14:10 …e He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years…
Joshua 15:1 Now the allotment for the clans of the tribe of Judah extended to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin at the extreme southern boundary:
Joshua 15:61 These were in the wilderness:
Joshua 16:1 …t Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of…
Joshua 18:12 …, headed west through the hill country, and came out at the wilderness of…
Joshua 20:8 …d the Jordan, east of Jericho, they designated Bezer on the wilderness plateau from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from…
Joshua 24:7 …eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long…
Judges 1:16 …went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the…
Judges 8:7 “Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”
Judges 8:16 Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.
Judges 11:16 But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
Judges 11:18 Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the…
Judges 11:22 seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
Judges 20:42 So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
Judges 20:45 Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck…
Judges 20:47 But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
1 Samuel 4:8 Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
1 Samuel 13:18 another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.
1 Samuel 17:28 … asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the…
1 Samuel 23:14 And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David…
1 Samuel 23:15 While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
1 Samuel 23:24 So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,
1 Samuel 23:25 …s told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David…
1 Samuel 24:1 After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”
1 Samuel 25:1 When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.
1 Samuel 25:4 While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.
1 Samuel 25:14 Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.
1 Samuel 25:21 … vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for…
1 Samuel 26:2 So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.
1 Samuel 26:3 Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon, but David was living in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had followed him there,
2 Samuel 2:24 But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. By sunset, they had gone as far as the hill of Ammah opposite Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.
2 Samuel 15:23 …on Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the…
2 Samuel 15:28 See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”
2 Samuel 16:2 …nd the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the…
2 Samuel 17:16 …and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed…
2 Samuel 17:29 honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
1 Kings 2:34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and killed him. He was buried at his own home in the wilderness.
1 Kings 9:18 Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,
1 Kings 19:4 while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take…
1 Chronicles 6:78 From the tribe of Reuben east of the Jordan opposite Jericho they were given Bezer in the wilderness, Jahzah,
1 Chronicles 21:29 For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,
2 Chronicles 1:3 …eeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the…
2 Chronicles 8:4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.
2 Chronicles 20:16 … and you will find them at the end of the valley facing the Wilderness of…
2 Chronicles 20:20 Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe…
2 Chronicles 20:24 When the men of Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the vast army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; no one had escaped.
2 Chronicles 24:9 And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.
Nehemiah 9:19 You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the…
Nehemiah 9:21 For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Job 39:6 I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
Psalms 29:8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
Psalms 55:7 How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
Psalms 65:12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.
Psalms 78:15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
Psalms 78:19 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
Psalms 78:40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

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