16 occurrences in 12 translations

'Desert' in the Bible

How terrible for us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the desert.

one company turned in the direction of Beth-horon, while the one company turned toward the border that overlooks the valley of Zeboiim toward the desert.

When David's oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry with David and said, "Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! You have come down here to watch the battle!"

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersEmotions, Kinds OfAnger, HumanShepherds, As OccupationsSpeech, Negative Aspects OfAnger Of Man, CauseNamed People Angry With OthersNo More Tending The FlockEmotions

David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the desert of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, but God did not deliver David into his hand.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Rise OfFortificationsFortressesHillsSelf DefenceUnceasingAlways Being ActiveNot Given Into One's HandsThose Looking For People

David realized that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the desert of Ziph.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific People

Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

Verse ConceptsSouthTelling Of Movements

And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

Verse ConceptsDeserts, Specific

Saul and his men went to look for him. But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

Verse ConceptsRocksPursuingStones For ProtectionTelling Of Movements

When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, "Look, David is in the desert of En Gedi."

Verse ConceptsDeserts, SpecificTelling Of Movementssaul

Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David left and went down to the desert of Paran.

Verse ConceptsCemeteryMournersMourning The Death Of Others

When David heard in the desert that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

Verse ConceptsSheep Shearing

But one of the servants told Nabal's wife Abigail, "David sent messengers from the desert to greet our lord, but he screamed at them.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsInsulting Other PeopleTelling Of Happenings

Now David had been thinking, "In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn't take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.

Verse ConceptsIngratitudeReward, HumanMannersUseless LabourPeople Actually Doing Evil

And the Ziphites come in unto Saul, at Gibeah, saying, 'Is not David hiding himself in the height of Hachilah, on the front of the desert?'

Verse ConceptsHiding From PeopleTelling Of Movements

So Saul arose and went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph.

Verse ConceptsDeserts, SpecificThree Thousand And Up

And Saul encampeth in the height of Hachilah, which is on the front of the desert, by the way, and David is abiding in the wilderness, and he seeth that Saul hath come after him in to the wilderness;

Bible Theasaurus

Abandon (107 instances)
Defect (68 instances)
Desert (358 instances)
Desolate (212 instances)
Forsake (97 instances)
Merit (7 instances)

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