Bible Studies Jeanie C. Crain http://crain.english.missouriwestern.edu See Back to Galilee (2012)
Isaiah 40
3 A voice cries out:
"In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD,
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
5 Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,
and all people shall see it together,
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
3 A voice cries out:
"In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD,
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
5 Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed
and all people shall see it together,
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
An Oxford search finds 280 hits. Genesis 14.6-- on the edge of the
wilderness; Genesis 16.7-- spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to
Shur. Genesis 21.14-- wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. Genesis 21.20-- up;
he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow. Genesis 21.21-- He lived in
the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Genesis
36.24-- the springs † in the wilderness, as he pastured the donkeys of his father
Zibeon. Genesis 37.22-- this pit here in the wilderness, but lay no hand on
him"—that he might rescue him out of Exodus 3.1-- his flock beyond the
wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. Exodus 3.18-- days' journey into the
wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.' Exodus 4.27-- to Aaron,
"Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went; and he met him at the Exodus
5.1-- a festival to me in the wilderness.' " Exodus 5.3-- days' journey into the
wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or he will fall upon us Exodus 7.16-- may
worship me in the wilderness." But until now you have not listened.' Exodus 8.27--
days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he commands
us." Exodus 8.28-- LORD your God in the wilderness, provided you do not go very far
away. Pray for me." Exodus 13.18-- roundabout way of the wilderness toward the Red
Sea. † The Israelites went up out of the Exodus 13.20-- on the edge of the
wilderness. Exodus 14.3-- in the land; the wilderness has closed in on them.' Exodus
14.11-- us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of
Egypt? Exodus 14.12-- than to die in the wilderness." Exodus 15.22-- and they went
into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and Exodus 16.1-- and
Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth
Exodus 16.2-- Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. Exodus 16.3-- us out into this wilderness
to kill this whole assembly with hunger." Exodus 16.10-- they looked toward the
wilderness, and the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. Exodus 16.14-- on the surface
of the wilderness was a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground. Exodus
16.32-- which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'
" Exodus 17.1-- the Rock 17 From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the
Israelites journeyed Exodus 18.5-- came into the wilderness where Moses was encamped at
the mountain of God, bringing Exodus 19.1-- day, they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus 19.2-- Rephidim, entered the wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness;
Israel camped Exodus 23.31-- and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will hand
over to you the inhabitants of the Leviticus 7.38-- to the LORD, in the wilderness of
Sinai. Leviticus 16.10-- be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel. † Leviticus
16.21-- it away into the wilderness by means of someone designated for the task. †
Leviticus 16.22-- be set free in the wilderness. Numbers 1.1-- spoke to Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the Numbers 1.19-- he
enrolled them in the wilderness of Sinai. Numbers 3.4-- before the LORD in the wilderness
of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar Numbers 3.14-- spoke to Moses in
the wilderness of Sinai, saying: Numbers 9.1-- spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
in the first month of the second year after they Numbers 9.5-- at twilight, † in the
wilderness of Sinai. Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so the Numbers 10.12-- out by
stages from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud settled down in the wilderness of
Numbers 10.31-- we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.
Numbers 12.16-- and camped in the wilderness of Paran. Numbers 13.3-- sent them from the
wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of Numbers 13.21-- out the
land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath. Numbers 13.26-- the Israelites
in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and Numbers 14.2--
we had died in this wilderness! Numbers 14.16-- slaughtered them in the wilderness.'
Numbers 14.22-- did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tested me these ten times
and have not Numbers 14.25-- and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red
Sea." † An Attempted Invasion is Numbers 14.29-- shall fall in this very
wilderness; and of all your number, included in the census, from Numbers 14.32-- shall
fall in this wilderness. Numbers 14.33-- be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years,
and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until Numbers 14.35-- against me: in this
wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die. Numbers 15.32--
Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.
Numbers 16.13-- honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also lord it over us?
Numbers 20.1-- came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed
in Kadesh. Miriam Numbers 20.4-- of the LORD into this wilderness for us and our livestock
to die here? Numbers 21.5-- of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no
water, and we detest this Numbers 21.11-- at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness bordering Moab
toward the sunrise. Numbers 21.13-- of the Arnon, in † the wilderness that extends
from the boundary of the Amorites; for the Numbers 21.18-- the staff." From the
wilderness to Mattanah, Numbers 21.23-- against Israel to the wilderness; he came to
Jahaz, and fought against Israel. Numbers 24.1-- set his face toward the wilderness.
Numbers 26.64-- the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai. Numbers 26.65-- "They
shall die in the wilderness." Not one of them was left, except Caleb son of Numbers
27.3-- "Our father died in the wilderness; he was not among the company of those who
gathered Numbers 27.14-- against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation
quarreled with me. † Numbers 32.13-- made them wander in the wilderness for forty
years, until all the generation that had done Numbers 32.15-- abandon them in the
wilderness; and you will destroy all this people." Numbers 33.6-- is on the edge of
the wilderness. Numbers 33.8-- the sea into the wilderness, went a three days' journey in
the wilderness of Etham, and Numbers 33.11-- Sea † and camped in the wilderness of
Sin. Numbers 33.12-- They set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
Numbers 33.15-- and camped in the wilderness of Sinai. Numbers 33.16-- They set out from
the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah. Numbers 33.36-- and camped in the
wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh). Numbers 34.3-- shall extend from the wilderness of
Zin along the side of Edom. Your southern boundary Deuteronomy 1.1-- the Jordan—in
the wilderness, on the plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Deuteronomy 1.19--
that great and terrible wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the
Deuteronomy 1.31-- and in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD your God carried you,
just as Deuteronomy 1.40-- journey back into the wilderness, in the direction of the Red
Sea." † Deuteronomy 2.1-- journeyed back into the wilderness, in the direction
of the Red Sea, † as the LORD had Deuteronomy 2.7-- through this great wilderness.
These forty years the LORD your God has been with Deuteronomy 2.8-- along the route of the
wilderness of Moab, Deuteronomy 2.26-- messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King
Sihon of Heshbon with the Deuteronomy 4.43-- Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland
belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Deuteronomy 8.2-- forty years in the wilderness, in
order to humble you, testing you to know what was in Deuteronomy 8.15-- the great and
terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland with poisonous † snakes and Deuteronomy 8.16--
and fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble
Deuteronomy 9.7-- God to wrath in the wilderness; you have been rebellious against the
LORD from the Deuteronomy 9.28-- to let them die in the wilderness.' Deuteronomy 11.5-- he
did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; Deuteronomy 11.24-- shall
extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Deuteronomy 29.5--
you forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the
Deuteronomy 32.10-- land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him,
guarded him Deuteronomy 32.51-- Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, by failing to
maintain my holiness among Joshua 1.4-- From the wilderness and the Lebanon as far as the
great river, the river Euphrates, all the land Joshua 5.4-- the journey through the
wilderness after they had come out of Egypt. Joshua 5.5-- the journey through the
wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
Joshua 5.6-- forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the warriors who came
out of Egypt, Joshua 8.15-- in the direction of the wilderness. Joshua 8.20-- people who
fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers. Joshua 8.24-- of Ai in the open
wilderness where they pursued them, and when all of them to the very last Joshua 12.8-- in
the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, Amorites,
Joshua 14.10-- journeying through the wilderness; and here I am today, eighty-five years
old. Joshua 15.1-- of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south. Joshua 15.61--
In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah, Joshua 16.1-- of Jericho, into the
wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel; Joshua 18.12-- and it
ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven. Joshua 20.8-- appointed Bezer in the wilderness on
the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Joshua 24.7-- you lived in the
wilderness a long time. Judges 1.16-- city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which
lies in the Negeb near Arad. Then they went Judges 8.7-- on the thorns of the wilderness
and on briers." Judges 8.16-- he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with
them he trampled † the people of Judges 11.16-- Israel went through the wilderness to
the Red Sea † and came to Kadesh. Judges 11.18-- journeyed through the wilderness,
went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, Judges 11.22-- the Jabbok and from the
wilderness to the Jordan. Judges 20.42-- in the direction of the wilderness; but the
battle overtook them, and those who came out of Judges 20.45-- and fled toward the
wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, five thousand of them were cut down Judges 20.47-- and
fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and remained at the rock of Rimmon
1 Samuel 4.8-- sort of plague in the wilderness.
1 Samuel 13.18-- of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
1 Samuel 17.28-- those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil
of your heart;
1 Samuel 23.14-- the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the Wilderness
of Ziph. Saul
1 Samuel 23.24-- and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of
Jeshimon.
1 Samuel 23.25-- rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he
pursued David into
1 Samuel 24.1-- told, "David is in the wilderness of En-gedi."
1 Samuel 25.1-- up and went down to the wilderness of Paran. David and the Wife of Nabal
1 Samuel 25.4-- David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
1 Samuel 25.14-- messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he shouted
insults at them.
1 Samuel 25.21-- this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that
belonged to him;
1 Samuel 26.3-- David remained in the wilderness. When he learned that Saul came after him
into the
2 Samuel 2.24-- Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.
2 Samuel 15.23-- moved on toward the wilderness.
2 Samuel 15.28-- at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform
me."
2 Samuel 16.2-- drink who faint in the wilderness."
2 Samuel 17.16-- at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means cross over; otherwise
the king and all the
2 Samuel 17.29-- and thirsty in the wilderness."
1 Kings 2.34-- his own house near the wilderness.
1 Kings 9.18-- Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness, within the land,
1 Kings 19.4-- day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary
broom tree. He
1 Kings 19.15-- on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; when you arrive, you shall
anoint Hazael as
2 Kings 3.8-- "By the way of the wilderness of Edom."
1 Chronicles 12.8-- the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors,
expert with shield
1 Chronicles 21.29-- Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering
were at that time in
2 Chronicles 1.3-- LORD had made in the wilderness, was there.
2 Chronicles 8.4-- He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage towns that he
built in Hamath.
2 Chronicles 20.16-- the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
2 Chronicles 20.20-- and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out,
Jehoshaphat stood
2 Chronicles 20.24-- the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude;
they were corpses
2 Chronicles 24.9-- laid on Israel in the wilderness.
2 Chronicles 26.10-- He built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he
had large herds, Nehemiah 9.19-- not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud
that led them in the way did not Nehemiah 9.21-- sustained them in the wilderness so that
they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear Psalm 29.8-- of the LORD shakes the
wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. Psalm 55.7-- I would lodge in the
wilderness; Selah Psalm 65.12-- 12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird
themselves with joy, Psalm 68.7-- you marched through the wilderness, Selah Psalm 74.14--
the creatures of the wilderness. Psalm 75.6-- west and not from the wilderness comes
lifting up; Psalm 78.15-- split rocks open in the wilderness, and gave them drink
abundantly as from the uninhabited wilderness, and pitched their tents in untrodden
places.
Wisdom of Solomon 17.17-- who toiled in the wilderness, they were seized, and endured the
inescapable Sirach 13.19-- Wild asses in the wilderness are the prey of lions; likewise
the poor are feeding grounds for Sirach 43.21-- and burns up the wilderness, and withers
the tender grass like fire. Sirach 45.18-- and envied him in the wilderness, Dathan and
Abiram and their followers and the
1 Maccabees 2.29-- went down to the wilderness to live there,
1 Maccabees 2.31-- hiding places in the wilderness.
1 Maccabees 3.45-- was uninhabited like a wilderness; not one of her children went in or
out. The
1 Maccabees 5.24-- days' journey into the wilderness.
1 Maccabees 5.28-- turned back by the wilderness road to Bozrah; and he took the town, and
killed every
1 Maccabees 9.33-- and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoa and camped by the water of
the pool of
1 Maccabees 9.62-- to Bethbasi in the wilderness; he rebuilt the parts of it that had been
demolished, and
1 Maccabees 13.21-- to them by way of the wilderness and to send them food.
2 Maccabees 5.27-- others, got away to the wilderness, and kept himself and his companions
alive in the
2 Esdras 1.17-- and thirsty in the wilderness, did you not cry out to me,
2 Esdras 1.18-- you led us into this wilderness to kill us? It would have been better for
us to serve the
2 Esdras 1.22-- † When you were in the wilderness, at the bitter stream, thirsty and
blaspheming my name,
2 Esdras 9.29-- to our ancestors in the wilderness when they came out from Egypt and when
they came into Matthew 3.1-- Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming,
Matthew 3.3-- one crying out in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his
paths straight.' " Matthew 4.1-- by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by
the devil. Matthew 11.7-- did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by
the wind? Matthew 24.26-- 'Look! He is in the wilderness,' do not go out. If they say,
'Look! He is in the inner Mark 1.3-- one crying out in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of
the Lord, make his paths straight,' " Mark 1.4-- appeared † in the wilderness,
proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Mark 1.12-- drove him out
into the wilderness. Mark 1.13-- He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan;
and he was with the wild beasts; and Luke 1.80-- and he was in the wilderness until the
day he appeared publicly to Israel. Luke 3.2-- son of Zechariah in the wilderness. Luke
3.4-- one crying out in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths
straight. Luke 4.1-- by the Spirit in the wilderness,
Luke 7.24-- did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by the wind? Luke
15.4-- the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds
it? John 1.23-- one crying out in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,'
" as the prophet Isaiah John 3.14-- up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son
of Man be lifted up, John 6.31-- ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He
gave them bread from heaven to eat.' " John 6.49-- ate the manna in the wilderness,
and they died. John 11.54-- in the region near the wilderness; and he remained there with
the disciples. Acts 7.30-- appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame
of a burning bush. Acts 7.36-- the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. Acts
7.38-- the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai,
and with Acts 7.42-- forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? Acts 7.44-- of
testimony in the wilderness, as God † directed when he spoke to Moses, ordering him
to Acts 8.26-- to Gaza." (This is a wilderness road.) Acts 13.18-- up with †
them in the wilderness. Acts 21.38-- assassins out into the wilderness?"
1 Corinthians 10.5-- were struck down in the wilderness.
2 Corinthians 11.26-- the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false
brothers and Hebrews 3.8-- day of testing in the wilderness, Hebrews 3.17-- bodies fell in
the wilderness? Revelation 12.6-- the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a
place prepared by God, so that there Revelation 12.14-- the serpent into the wilderness,
to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, Revelation 17.3-- in the spirit
† into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast.