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Wilderness
Feature Pages(3)
- FeatureNumbers — the Study GuideTwo censuses bracket a generation's unbelief and a generation's hope: the bronze serpent, Balaam's Star out of Jacob, and the Aaronic Blessing's oldest words.
- FeatureThe Bronze SerpentNumbers 21 and its messianic fulfillment in John 3 — why Jesus identifies himself with the lifted serpent.
- FeatureToday, If Ye Will Hear His VoiceThe wilderness cycle Paul and Hebrews turn into the church's own standing warning — Taberah, Kadesh-Barnea, Korah, Meribah, and 1 Corinthians 10.
Verses(5+)
- VerseJoshua 15:61These were in the wilderness:
- Verse1 Kings 9:18Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,
- VersePsalms 29:8The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
- VerseLuke 5:16Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.
- VerseMark 1:12At once the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness,
Places(4)
- PlaceEphraimThe town near the wilderness where Jesus withdrew with His disciples before the last Passover (John 11:54).
- PlaceTekoaJudean town on the wilderness edge south of Bethlehem; home of Amos the herdman (Amos 1:1) and the wise woman of 2 Samuel 14.
- PlaceKadesh-BarneaThe oasis on Canaan's doorstep where the spies returned, the people refused, and a generation turned back into forty years of wilderness.
- PlaceMount Sinai (Horeb)The mountain of God in the wilderness where the bush burned, the Law was given in fire and cloud, and the covenant was cut; Elijah later heard the still small voice here.
Words (Strong's)(5+)
- WordH4057 מִדְבָּר · midbâr (Hebrew)a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven)
- WordG2048 ἔρημος · érēmos (Greek)lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, being implied)
- WordH776 אֶרֶץ · ʼerets (Hebrew)the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- WordG2047 ἐρημία · erēmía (Greek)solitude (concretely)
- WordH3452 יְשִׁימוֹן · yᵉshîymôwn (Hebrew)a desolation
Themes(2)
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
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Prophecies(1)
Authors(3)
- AuthorEucherius of LyonEucherius was a Gallo-Roman aristocrat of senatorial rank, married to a woman named Galla, with two sons and two daughters. Sometime in the 410s or 420s he took his whole…
- AuthorMacarius of EgyptMacarius was born in Upper Egypt about 300. He worked as a camel driver hauling natron from the salt lakes, which is how he came to know the empty country west of the Nile…
- AuthorCosmas of MaiumaCosmas was, by the tradition preserved in the Greek church, an orphan taken into the household of John of Damascus's father in Syria and raised alongside John as a brother. The…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resourceSirach 43:21It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 2:29Then many that sought after justice and judgment went down into the wilderness, to dwell there:
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 11:2They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.
- Study resourceSirach 13:19As the wild ass is the lion’s prey in the wilderness: so the rich eat up the poor.
- Study resource2 Esdras 1:18Saying, Why hast thou brought us into this wilderness to kill us? it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than to die in this wilderness.
Doorways
Study a word
H4057מִדְבָּר midbâr — a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven)G2048ἔρημος érēmos — lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually
as a noun, being implied)H776אֶרֶץ ʼerets — the earth (at large, or partitively a land)G2047ἐρημία erēmía — solitude (concretely)H3452יְשִׁימוֹן yᵉshîymôwn — a desolationH6723צִיָּה tsîyâh — aridity