Desert

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Genesis 21:21 OT

  He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

• Numbers 10:12 OT

  The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.

• Genesis 16:7 OT

  Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

• Exodus 16:1 OT

  They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 19:1 OT

  In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

• Exodus 19:2 OT

  When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.

• Numbers 33:16 OT

  They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.

• 1 Samuel 23:14 OT

  David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

• 1 Samuel 23:15 OT

  David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

• Numbers 20:1 OT

  The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.

• Numbers 27:14 OT

  because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

• Exodus 13:18 OT

  but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

• Acts 8:26 NT

  But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”

• Jeremiah 17:6 OT

  For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

• Genesis 36:24 OT

  These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.

• Exodus 3:1 OT

  Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.

• Genesis 21:20 OT

  God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.

• Psalms 72:9 OT

  Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.

• Jeremiah 25:24 OT

  and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;

• Hebrews 11:38 NT

  of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

• 1 Samuel 22:2 OT

  Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

• Acts 21:38 NT

  Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”

• Psalms 106:9 OT

  He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

• Psalms 107:33 OT

  He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,