Bible Topics for Kids
PARAN, Desert or wilderness of
Genesis 21:21
He lived in the wilderness of PARAN. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers 10:12
The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of PARAN.
Numbers 12:16
Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of PARAN.
Numbers 13:3-26
3. Moses sent them from the wilderness of PARAN according to the commandment of The LORD. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.
4. These were their names:Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
5. Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
6. Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7. Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
8. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
9. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
10. Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
11. Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12. Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13. Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
14. Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
15. Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16. These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
17. Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.
18. See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
19. and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
20. and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
21. So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
22. They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23. They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
24. That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
25. They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
26. They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of PARAN, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.
Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between PARAN, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.