Wilderness

Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.

I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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

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.’”

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

So if they tell you, ‘There He is, in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Here He is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

At once the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness,

And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the wilderness until the time of his public appearance to Israel.

…during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

…as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.

After John’s messengers had left, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

“Aren’t you the Egyptian who incited a rebellion some time ago and led four thousand members of the Assassins into the wilderness?”

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

…do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.