Wilderness of the Wandering

(The region in which the Israelites spent nearly 38 years of their existence after they had left Egypt, and spent a year before Mount Sinai. They went as far as Kadesh, on the southernmost border of Palestine, from which place spies were sent up into the promised land. These returned with such a report of the inhabitants and their walled cities that the people were discouraged, and began to murmur and rebel. For their sin they were compelled to remain 38 years longer in the wilderness, because it showed that they were not yet prepared and trained to conquer and to hold their promised possessions. The wilderness of the wandering was the great central limestone plateau of the sinaitic peninsula. It was bordered on the east by the valley of the Arabah, which runs from the Dead Sea to the head of the eastern branch of the Red Sea. On the south and south west were the granite mountains of Sinai and on the north the Mediterranean Sea and the mountainous region south of Judea. It is called the Desert of Paran , and Badiet et-Tih , which means "Desert of the Wandering." The children of Israel were not probably marching as a nation from place to place in this wilder new during these 38 years, but they probably had a kind of headquarters at Kadesh, and were "compelled to linger on as do the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, in a half-savage, homeless state, moving about from place to place, and pitching their tents wherever they could find pasture for their flocks and herds." --E.H. Palmer. Toward the close of the forty years from Egypt they again assembled at Kadesh, and, once more under the leadership of the Shechinah, they marched down the Arabah on their way to the promised land. --ED.)

6947. Qadesh Barnea -- a place in the desert
... to bar and a derivative of nuwa') meaning desert of a fugitive; Kadesh of (the)
Wilderness of Wandering; Kadesh-Barnea, a place in the Desert -- Kadesh-barnea. ...
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The Mediator's Threefold Prayer
... The plea for this prayer is God's honour, which was concerned in making it plain
even in the remote wilderness, to the wandering tribes there, that His hand ...
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The Wilderness.
... Till all the rest should have fallen in the wilderness, and a better race ... were defeated,
and thus were obliged to endure their forty years' desert wandering. ...
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Entrance into Rest.
... What are the points of difference? In the wilderness, wandering for forty years,
backward and forward; in Canaan, perfect rest in the land that God gave them. ...
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The Lord Our Dwelling Place
... All their Christian lives they have been wandering in a spiritual wilderness, and
have found no city to dwell in, and, hungry and thirsty, their souls have ...
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From Egypt to Sinai.
... (3) Under the leadership of the cloud, which during all the forty years of wilderness
wandering, was their guide, they next encamped at Rephidim where there ...
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The Wandering Bird
... Mind what you are at then, lest in wandering from holiness you prove yourself like
a bird that wandereth from her nest. Oh! ... "Have I been a wilderness unto you ...
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The vineyard of the Lord
... Miraculously preserved from the perils of the wilderness wandering, they were
finally established in the Land of Promise as a favored nation. ...
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Hebrews xi. 37, 38
... "Wandering," he says, "in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the ... not
worthy to see the sun, they found no refuge from the wilderness, but must ...
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God's Training
... through. His raiment doth not wax old, neither doth his foot swell, through
all his forty years' wandering in the wilderness. He ...
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"Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge"
... Near the close of the wilderness wandering the conditions of the covenant
had been repeated. At Baalpeor, on the very borders of ...
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