Deserts
Barren, arid landscapes that serve as places of testing, purification, and divine encounter. Israel wandered forty years in the wilderness (Numbers 14:33). Moses met God at the burning bush in the desert (Exodus 3). Elijah fled to the desert and heard God's still, small voice (1 Kings 19). John the Baptist preached in the wilderness (Matthew 3:1). Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days of temptation (Matthew 4:1-2). Isaiah 35:1 prophesied, 'The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.' Deserts strip away distractions, revealing one's true dependence on God.
Verses about Deserts
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อพยพ 3:1
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mount…
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อพยพ 5:3
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our…
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อพยพ 19:2
For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mou…
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อพยพ 23:31
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitan…
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กันดารวิถี 20:1
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam …
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กันดารวิถี 27:14
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that i…
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กันดารวิถี 33:16
And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah.
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เฉลยธรรมบัญญัติ 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
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2 พงศาวดาร 26:10
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and v…
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โยบ 24:5
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their chil…
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สดุดี 28:4
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them thei…
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สดุดี 78:40
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
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สดุดี 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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สดุดี 106:14
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
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อิสยาห์ 13:21
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall danc…
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อิสยาห์ 21:1
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
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อิสยาห์ 34:14
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall r…
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อิสยาห์ 35:1
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
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อิสยาห์ 35:6
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
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อิสยาห์ 40:3
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.