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Deserts

 

Deserts

Vast barren plains - Ex 5:3; Joh 6:13

Uninhabited places - Mt 14:15; Mr 6:31

DESCRIBED AS

• Uninhabited and lonesome
- Jer 2:6
• Uncultivated
- Nu 20:5; Jer 2:2
• Desolate
- Eze 6:14
• Dry and without water
- Ex 17:1; De 8:15
• Trackless
- Isa 43:19
• Great and terrible
- De 1:19
• Waste and howling
- De 32:10

Infested with wild beasts - Isa 13:21; Mr 1:13

Infested with serpents - De 8:15

Infested with robbers - Jer 3:2; La 4:19

Danger of travelling in - Ex 14:3; 2Co 11:26

Guides required in - Nu 10:31; De 32:10

PHENOMENA OF, ALLUDED TO

• Mirage or deceptive appearance of water
- Jer 15:18
• Simoom or deadly wind
- 2Ki 19:7; Jer 4:11
• Tornadoes or whirlwinds
- Isa 21:1
• Clouds of sand and dust
- De 28:24; Jer 4:12,13

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Arabian or great desert
- Ex 23:31
• Bethaven
- Jos 18:12
• Beersheba
- Ge 21:14; 1Ki 19:3,4
• Damascus
- 1Ki 19:15
• Edom
- 2Ki 3:8
• Engedi
- 1Sa 24:1
• Gibeon
- 2Sa 2:24
• Judea
- Mt 3:1
• Jeruel
- 2Ch 20:16
• Kedemoth
- De 2:26
• Kadesh
- Ps 29:8
• Maon
- 1Sa 23:24,25
• Paran
- Ge 21:21; Nu 10:12
• Shur
- Ge 16:7
• Sin
- Ex 16:1
• Sinai
- Ex 19:1,2; Nu 33:16
• Ziph
- 1Sa 23:14,15
• Zin
- Nu 20:1; 27:14
• Of the Red Sea
- Ex 13:18
• Near Gaza
- Ac 8:26

Heath often found in - Jer 17:6

Parts of, afforded pasture - Ge 36:24; Ex 3:1

Inhabited by wandering tribes - Ge 21:20,21; Ps 72:9; Jer 25:24

The persecuted fled to - 1Sa 23:14; Heb 11:38

The disaffected fled to - 1Sa 22:2; Ac 21:38

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

• Barrenness
- Ps 106:9; 107:33,35
• Those deprived of blessings
- Ho 2:3
• The world
- So 3:6; 8:5
• The Gentiles
- Isa 35:1,6; 41:19
• What affords no support
- Jer 2:31
• Desolation by armies
- Jer 12:10-13; 50:12
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