So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab;<n id="1" /> he was buried at his home in the wilderness.

Now the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s tabernacle (which Moses had made in the wilderness) and the altar for burnt sacrifices were at that time at the worship center<n id="1" /> in Gibeon.

He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath.

For forty years you sustained them. Even in the desert they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.p>

<p class="poetry">Like<n id="1" /> wild donkeys in the desertp> <p class="poetry">they<n id="2" /> go out to their labor,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">seeking diligently for food;p> <p class="poetry">the wasteland provides<n id="4" /> food for themp> <p class="poetry">and for their children.p>

<p class="poetry">A voice cries out,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;In the wilderness clear a way for the <sc>Lordsc>;p> <p class="poetry">construct in the desert a road for our God.p>

all the kings of Arabia who<n id="1" /> live in the desert;

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The people of Israel who survivedp> <p class="poetry">death at the hands of the enemy<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will find favor in the wildernessp> <p class="poetry">as they journey to find rest for themselves.p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1511; (<i>Qofi>)p> <p class="poetry">Those who pursued us were swifterp> <p class="poetry">than eagles<n id="1" /> in the sky.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They chased us over the mountains;p> <p class="poetry">they ambushed us in the wilderness.p>

Yet I had pity on<n id="1" /> them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.p>

<p class="poetry">You did not bring me<n id="1" /> sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family<n id="2" /> of Israel.p>

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out<n id="1" /> my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">These were the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah (who discovered the hot springs<n id="1" /> in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon).p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, &#8220;Thus says the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="2" /> the God of Israel, &#8216;Release<n id="3" /> my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast<n id="4" /> to me in the desert.&#8217;&#8221;

Tell him, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc>, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Release my people, that they may serve me<n id="2" /> in the desert!&#8221; But until now<n id="3" /> you have not listened.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Pharaoh said, &#8220;I will release you<n id="1" /> so that you may sacrifice<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> your God in the desert. Only you must not go very far.<n id="3" /> Do<n id="4" /> pray for me.&#8221;p>

and they said to Moses, &#8220;Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert?<n id="1" /> What in the world<n id="2" /> have you done to us by bringing<n id="3" /> us out of Egypt?

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses led Israel to journey<n id="2" /> away from the Red Sea. They went out to the Desert of Shur, walked for three days<n id="3" /> into the desert, and found no water.

which the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the <sc>Lordsc> in the wilderness of Sinai.p>

The goat is to bear on itself all their iniquities into an inaccessible land,<n id="1" /> so he is to send the goat away<n id="2" /> in the wilderness.p>