Desert

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 2 Corinthians 11:26 NT

  I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

• Numbers 10:31 OT

  Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

• Jeremiah 15:18 OT

  Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

• 2 Kings 19:7 OT

  Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”

• Jeremiah 4:11 OT

  At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

• Isaiah 21:1 OT

  The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

• Deuteronomy 28:24 OT

  Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.

• Jeremiah 4:12 OT

  a full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”

• Jeremiah 4:13 OT

  Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

• Exodus 23:31 OT

  I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

• Joshua 18:12 OT

  Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.

• Genesis 21:14 OT

  Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

• 1 Kings 19:3 OT

  When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

• 1 Kings 19:4 OT

  But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my…

• 1 Kings 19:15 OT

  Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

• 2 Kings 3:8 OT

  He said, “Which way shall we go up?” He answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”

• 1 Samuel 24:1 OT

  When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”

• 2 Samuel 2:24 OT

  But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

• Matthew 3:1 NT

  In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 20:16 OT

  Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

• Deuteronomy 2:26 OT

  I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

• Psalms 29:8 OT

  Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

• 1 Samuel 23:24 OT

  They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

• 1 Samuel 23:25 OT

  Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.