What Does the Bible Say About Wandered In The Desert?

Numbers 32:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.

Exodus 16:35 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Exodus 17:1-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” So Moses cried to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. ...

Matthew 14:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

Psalm 107:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;

1 Kings 19:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

Deuteronomy 32:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Genesis 21:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Mark 6:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.

Exodus 16:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes

They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” ...

Genesis 37:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, “What are you seeking?”

Hebrews 11:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

John 6:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 14:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord concerning this people: “They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”

Deuteronomy 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’

Acts 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

John 17:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Proverbs 21:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Psalm 106:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;

1 Kings 19:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

1 Samuel 17:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

Joshua 14:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Deuteronomy 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

Numbers 33:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.

Numbers 27:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation quarreled, failing to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

Numbers 14:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.

Numbers 13:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

Exodus 24:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 23:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Genesis 7:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Acts 8:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.

Luke 9:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place.”

Luke 9:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On their return the apostles told him all that they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart to a town called Bethsaida.

Mark 6:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late.

Matthew 24:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.

Lamentations 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They wandered, blind, through the streets; they were so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.

Jeremiah 50:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Jeremiah 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’

Isaiah 41:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,

Isaiah 35:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;

Isaiah 13:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.

Proverbs 27:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

Psalm 107:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

Psalm 56:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?

Job 12:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste.

Numbers 13:31-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Exodus 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

Exodus 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

51 Bible Verses about Wandered In The Desert

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