Bible Verses About Wilderness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for wilderness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 395 votes, led by Matthew 4:1-25. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Wilderness
Matthew 4:1-2582 votes
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Isaiah 43:1952 votes
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Ezekiel 34:2547 votes
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Genesis 21:17-2134 votes
And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
Exodus 3:134 votes
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
Revelation 12:634 votes
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Genesis 16:7-1123 votes
And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Matthew 3:116 votes
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
Mark 1:12-1316 votes
And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
Hosea 2:1415 votes
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
Deuteronomy 32:1012 votes
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Leviticus 26:1-4610 votes
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 33:1-5610 votes
These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Romans 12:210 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
What does the Bible say about wilderness?
Readers most often cite Matthew 4:1-25 on the subject of wilderness. Across 395 votes, 14 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 43:19, Ezekiel 34:25, Genesis 21:17-21. This page lists all 14 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.