“My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions”
Elayne Boosler
“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, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains; / Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, / Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, / Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, / Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, / Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.”
Bible
“So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.”
“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 he railed on them.”
“But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.”
“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.”
“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 consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.”
