- Exodus 16:35 (NIV):
“The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.”
- Exodus 3:1 (NIV):
“Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.”
- Psalm 78:40 (NIV):
“How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!”
- Matthew 3:1-3 (NIV):
“In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’ This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: ‘A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.”'”
- Numbers 14:33 (NIV):
“Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.”
- Mark 1:12-13 (NIV):
“At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.”
- Deuteronomy 1:31 (NIV):
“and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”
- Jeremiah 2:2 (NIV):
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: ‘This is what the Lord says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.”'”
- Hosea 2:14 (NIV):
“Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her.”
- Deuteronomy 32:10 (NIV):
“In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye.”
- Matthew 4:1 (NIV):
“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.”
- Numbers 32:13 (NIV):
“The Lord’s anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.”
- Psalm 107:4-5 (NIV):
“Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle. They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.”
- Isaiah 43:19 (NIV):
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”
- Hebrews 3:8 (NIV):
“do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,”
- Exodus 13:18 (NIV):
“So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.”
- Psalm 78:15 (NIV):
“He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas;”
- Psalm 78:52 (NIV):
“But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.”
- Jeremiah 2:6 (NIV):
“They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and utter darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?'”
- Deuteronomy 8:15 (NIV):
“He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.”
- Joshua 5:6 (NIV):
“The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the Lord. For the Lord had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
- Deuteronomy 8:2 (NIV):
“Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.”
- Isaiah 35:1 (NIV):
“The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus,”
- Numbers 21:5 (NIV):
“they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, ‘Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!'”
- Deuteronomy 8:3 (NIV):
“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 9:2 (NIV):
“Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.”
- Mark 1:4 (NIV):
“And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.”
- Jeremiah 51:43 (NIV):
“Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.”
- Joel 2:22 (NIV):
“Do not be afraid, you wild animals, for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.”
- Psalm 68:7 (NIV):
“When you, God, went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness,”