מִדְבָּר

“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”

Now send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.’”

…honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and killed him. He was buried at his own home in the wilderness.

Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,

…while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Then the LORD said to him, “Go back by the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.

Then he asked, “Which way shall we go up?” “By way of the Desert of Edom,” replied Joram.

They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.

From the tribe of Reuben east of the Jordan opposite Jericho they were given Bezer in the wilderness, Jahzah,

Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:

For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.

Tomorrow you are to march down against them. You will see them coming up the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley facing the Wilderness of Jeruel.

Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

When the men of Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the vast army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

…when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

…to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.

How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.

For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,

He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

…do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

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

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.

He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,

He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.

He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?

Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.

Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.

…who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.

For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.