# מִדְבָּר (midbar)

Israeli respelling: mid-bar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4057. 257 Old Testament occurrences.

a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)

King James renderings: desert, south, speech, wilderness.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/midbar-h4057

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/14/6) — And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
- [Genesis 16:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/16/7) — And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
- [Genesis 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/14) — And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and th…
- [Genesis 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/20) — And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
- [Genesis 21:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/21) — And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
- [Genesis 36:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/36/24) — And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses o…
- [Genesis 37:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/22) — And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid…
- [Exodus 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/3/1) — 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…
- [Exodus 3:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/3/18) — And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him,…
- [Exodus 4:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/4/27) — And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
- [Exodus 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/1) — And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast un…
- [Exodus 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/3) — And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto th…
- [Exodus 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/7/16) — And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wi…
- [Exodus 8:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/8/27) — We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
- [Exodus 8:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/8/28) — And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intr…
- [Exodus 13:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/18) — But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the lan…
- [Exodus 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/20) — And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
- [Exodus 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/3) — For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
- [Exodus 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/11) — And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou deal…
- [Exodus 14:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/12) — Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us t…
- [Exodus 15:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/15/22) — So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and fo…
- [Exodus 16:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/1) — And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between…
- [Exodus 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/2) — And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
- [Exodus 16:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/3) — And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh…
- [Exodus 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/10) — And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, beh…
- [Exodus 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/14) — And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on…
- [Exodus 16:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/32) — And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the brea…
- [Exodus 17:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/17/1) — And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment…
- [Exodus 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/18/5) — And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
- [Exodus 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/19/1) — In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sin…
- [Exodus 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/19/2) — For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped befo…
- [Exodus 23:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/31) — And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the…
- [Leviticus 7:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/7/38) — Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD,…
- [Leviticus 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/10) — But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to le…
- [Leviticus 16:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/21) — And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and a…
- [Leviticus 16:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/22) — And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
- [Numbers 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/1) — And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in t…
- [Numbers 1:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/19) — As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
- [Numbers 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/4) — And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no child…
- [Numbers 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/14) — And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
- [Numbers 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/1) — And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egy…
- [Numbers 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/5) — And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD comm…
- [Numbers 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/12) — And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
- [Numbers 10:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/31) — And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead…
- [Numbers 12:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/12/16) — And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
- [Numbers 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/3) — And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
- [Numbers 13:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/21) — So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
- [Numbers 13:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/26) — And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kade…
- [Numbers 14:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/2) — And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had d…
- [Numbers 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/16) — Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
- [Numbers 14:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/22) — Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these…
- [Numbers 14:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/25) — (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
- [Numbers 14:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/29) — Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and u…
- [Numbers 14:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/32) — But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
- [Numbers 14:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/33) — And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
- [Numbers 14:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/35) — I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they s…
- [Numbers 15:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/32) — And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
- [Numbers 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/13) — Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou…
- [Numbers 20:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/20/1) — Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; a…
- [Numbers 20:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/20/4) — And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
- [Numbers 21:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/5) — And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no…
- [Numbers 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/11) — And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
- [Numbers 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/13) — From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites:…
- [Numbers 21:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/18) — The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderne…
- [Numbers 21:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/23) — And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into…
- [Numbers 24:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/1) — And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face…
- [Numbers 26:64](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/64) — But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wild…
- [Numbers 26:65](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/65) — For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunn…
- [Numbers 27:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/27/3) — Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company…
- [Numbers 27:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/27/14) — For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their ey…
- [Numbers 32:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/13) — And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had…
- [Numbers 32:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/15) — For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
- [Numbers 33:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/6) — And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
- [Numbers 33:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/8) — And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the…
- [Numbers 33:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/11) — And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
- [Numbers 33:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/12) — And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
- [Numbers 33:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/15) — And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
- [Numbers 33:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/16) — And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.
- [Numbers 33:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/36) — And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
- [Numbers 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/3) — Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of…
- [Deuteronomy 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/1) — These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between…
- [Deuteronomy 1:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/19) — And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amo…
- [Deuteronomy 1:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/31) — And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, u…
- [Deuteronomy 1:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/40) — But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
- [Deuteronomy 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/1) — Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir…
- [Deuteronomy 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/7) — For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty year…
- [Deuteronomy 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/8) — And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziong…
- [Deuteronomy 2:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/26) — And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
- [Deuteronomy 4:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/43) — Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the…
- [Deuteronomy 8:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/2) — And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee,…
- [Deuteronomy 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/15) — Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water;…
- [Deuteronomy 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/16) — Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee…
- [Deuteronomy 9:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/7) — Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the l…
- [Deuteronomy 9:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/28) — Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and beca…
- [Deuteronomy 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/5) — And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;
- [Deuteronomy 11:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/24) — Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates…
- [Deuteronomy 29:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/5) — And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
- [Deuteronomy 32:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/10) — 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 ey…
- [Deuteronomy 32:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/51) — Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctifi…
- [Joshua 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/1/4) — From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea t…
- [Joshua 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/4) — And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in t…
- [Joshua 5:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/5) — Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of…
- [Joshua 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/6) — For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were co…
- [Joshua 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/15) — And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
- [Joshua 8:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/20) — And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to fle…
- [Joshua 8:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/24) — And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased t…
- [Joshua 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/8) — In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites,…
- [Joshua 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/14/10) — And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while…
- [Joshua 15:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/15/1) — This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward w…
- [Joshua 15:61](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/15/61) — In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
- [Joshua 16:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/16/1) — And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up f…
- [Joshua 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/18/12) — And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through th…
- [Joshua 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/20/8) — And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramo…
- [Joshua 24:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/7) — And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your…
- [Judges 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/16) — And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness…
- [Judges 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/7) — And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of t…
- [Judges 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/16) — And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
- [Judges 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/16) — But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
- [Judges 11:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/18) — Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of…
- [Judges 11:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/22) — And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
- [Judges 20:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/42) — Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which cam…
- [Judges 20:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/45) — And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pur…
- [Judges 20:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/47) — But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
- [1 Samuel 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/4/8) — Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in…
- [1 Samuel 13:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/18) — And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim t…
- [1 Samuel 17:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/28) — And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou do…
- [1 Samuel 23:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/14) — And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but…
- [1 Samuel 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/15) — And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
- [1 Samuel 23:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/24) — And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
- [1 Samuel 23:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/25) — Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And w…
- [1 Samuel 24:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/24/1) — And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wildernes…
- [1 Samuel 25:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/1) — And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, an…
- [1 Samuel 25:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/4) — And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
- [1 Samuel 25:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/14) — But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and…
- [1 Samuel 25:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/21) — Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertaine…
- [1 Samuel 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/26/2) — Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wildern…
- [1 Samuel 26:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/26/3) — And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul cam…
- [2 Samuel 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/2/24) — Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the wa…
- [2 Samuel 15:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/15/23) — And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the…
- [2 Samuel 15:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/15/28) — See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
- [2 Samuel 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/16/2) — And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and…
- [2 Samuel 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/16) — Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the…
- [2 Samuel 17:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/29) — And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people i…
- [1 Kings 2:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/34) — So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
- [1 Kings 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/9/18) — And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
- [1 Kings 19:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/4) — But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he m…
- [1 Kings 19:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/15) — And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
- [2 Kings 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/3/8) — And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
- [1 Chronicles 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/5/9) — And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land…
- [1 Chronicles 6:78](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/6/78) — And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness wi…
- [1 Chronicles 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/8) — And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, t…
- [1 Chronicles 21:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/29) — For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high pl…
- [2 Chronicles 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/1/3) — So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation…
- [2 Chronicles 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/8/4) — And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
- [2 Chronicles 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/16) — To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wil…
- [2 Chronicles 20:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/20) — And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear m…
- [2 Chronicles 20:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/24) — And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to…
- [2 Chronicles 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/9) — And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Is…
- [2 Chronicles 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/10) — Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen a…
- [Nehemiah 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/19) — Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them…
- [Nehemiah 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/21) — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelle…
- [Job 1:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/1/19) — And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they…
- [Job 24:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/5) — Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for…
- [Job 38:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/26) — To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
- [Psalms 29:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/29/8) — The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
- [Psalms 55:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/7) — Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
- [Psalms 63:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/63/1) — O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no w…
- [Psalms 65:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/65/12) — They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
- [Psalms 75:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/75/6) — For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
- [Psalms 78:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/15) — He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
- [Psalms 78:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/19) — Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
- [Psalms 78:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/40) — How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
- [Psalms 78:52](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/52) — But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
- [Psalms 95:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/95/8) — Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
- [Psalms 102:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/6) — I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
- [Psalms 106:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/9) — He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
- [Psalms 106:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/14) — But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
- [Psalms 106:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/26) — Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
- [Psalms 107:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/4) — They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
- [Psalms 107:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/33) — He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
- [Psalms 107:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/35) — He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
- [Psalms 136:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/136/16) — To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- [Proverbs 21:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/19) — It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
- [Song of Solomon 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/3/6) — Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
- [Song of Solomon 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/4/3) — Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
- [Song of Solomon 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/5) — Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought t…
- [Isaiah 14:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/17) — That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
- [Isaiah 16:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/16/1) — Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
- [Isaiah 16:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/16/8) — For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they ar…
- [Isaiah 21:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/21/1) — The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
- [Isaiah 27:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/10) — Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shal…
- [Isaiah 32:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/15) — Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
- [Isaiah 32:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/16) — Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
- [Isaiah 35:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/35/1) — The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
- [Isaiah 35:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/35/6) — Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the…
- [Isaiah 40:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/3) — The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
- [Isaiah 41:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/18) — I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land…
- [Isaiah 41:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/19) — I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and th…
- [Isaiah 42:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/11) — Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing,…
- [Isaiah 43:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/19) — 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…
- [Isaiah 43:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/20) — The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to giv…
- [Isaiah 50:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/50/2) — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or h…
- [Isaiah 51:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/3) — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the g…
- [Isaiah 63:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/13) — That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
- [Isaiah 64:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/10) — Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- [Jeremiah 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/2) — Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals,…
- [Jeremiah 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/6) — Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of des…
- [Jeremiah 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/24) — A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her…
- [Jeremiah 2:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/31) — O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords;…
- [Jeremiah 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/2) — Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in…
- [Jeremiah 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/11) — At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my pe…
- [Jeremiah 4:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/26) — I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his…
- [Jeremiah 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/2) — Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterer…
- [Jeremiah 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/10) — For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up…
- [Jeremiah 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/12) — Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what th…
- [Jeremiah 9:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/26) — Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for…
- [Jeremiah 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/10) — Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
- [Jeremiah 12:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/12) — The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even…
- [Jeremiah 13:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/24) — Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
- [Jeremiah 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/6) — For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, i…
- [Jeremiah 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/6) — For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wil…
- [Jeremiah 23:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/10) — For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and thei…
- [Jeremiah 25:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/24) — And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
- [Jeremiah 31:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/2) — Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
- [Jeremiah 48:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/6) — Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
- [Jeremiah 50:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/12) — Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dr…
- [Lamentations 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/3) — Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriche…
- [Lamentations 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/19) — Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
- [Lamentations 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/9) — We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
- [Ezekiel 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/6/14) — So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their ha…
- [Ezekiel 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/13) — And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
- [Ezekiel 20:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/10) — Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
- [Ezekiel 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/13) — But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a m…
- [Ezekiel 20:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/15) — Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with mi…
- [Ezekiel 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/17) — Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
- [Ezekiel 20:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/18) — But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile…
- [Ezekiel 20:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/21) — Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do,…
- [Ezekiel 20:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/23) — I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countrie…
- [Ezekiel 20:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/35) — And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
- [Ezekiel 20:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/36) — Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Ezekiel 23:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/42) — And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which…
- [Ezekiel 29:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/5) — And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not…
- [Ezekiel 34:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/25) — 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…
- [Hosea 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/3) — Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay he…
- [Hosea 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/14) — Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
- [Hosea 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/10) — I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalp…
- [Hosea 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/13/5) — I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
- [Hosea 13:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/13/15) — Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring s…
- [Joel 1:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/19) — O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
- [Joel 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/20) — The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wildernes…
- [Joel 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/3) — A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wi…
- [Joel 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/22) — Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the v…
- [Joel 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/3/19) — Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have she…
- [Amos 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/2/10) — Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
- [Amos 5:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/25) — Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
- [Zephaniah 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/13) — And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
- [Malachi 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/3) — And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.