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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