99 Bible Verses About Pilgrimage

Bible verses about Pilgrimage

Embark on a sacred journey through scripture as we explore the concept of pilgrimage. More than just physical travel, pilgrimage, as understood in the Bible, represents our spiritual journey towards God. These verses illuminate the heart's longing for divine connection, the transformative power of leaving the familiar, and the blessings found in seeking God's presence. By studying these passages, we gain insight into the ancient practice of seeking holy ground and, more importantly, learn how to make our everyday lives a pilgrimage of faith, guided by His word and leading us closer to His eternal embrace.

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Numbers 1:52 (KJV)

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

Pilgrimage: Bible Verses on Spiritual Journeys

And the people journeyed from Kibroth–hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.

Numbers 11:35KJV

And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

1 Kings 3:4KJV

And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

Numbers 9:17KJV

And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.

Deuteronomy 1:24KJV

And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.

Genesis 35:21KJV

And they removed from Dibon–gad, and encamped in Almon–diblathaim.

Numbers 33:46KJV

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth–el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

1 Samuel 10:3KJV

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 18:5KJV

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

Psalms 132:3KJV

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

Proverbs 7:15KJV

And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.

Numbers 33:28KJV

Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Exodus 34:23KJV

And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

Genesis 35:12KJV

And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.

1 Kings 13:12KJV

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23:19KJV

And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.

Numbers 20:22KJV

But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

Deuteronomy 1:40KJV

And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

Deuteronomy 4:49KJV

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Psalms 107:7KJV

In the wilderness, Beth–arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

Joshua 15:61KJV

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.

Genesis 21:34KJV

And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

1 Kings 2:40KJV

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

Psalms 119:54KJV

At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.

Numbers 9:18KJV

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Psalms 73:24KJV

And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath–jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh–dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath–jearim.

Judges 18:12KJV

But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

Psalms 5:7KJV

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

Numbers 1:52KJV

Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.

Exodus 15:13KJV

And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.

Numbers 33:25KJV

For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you.

Deuteronomy 12:9KJV

Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

Psalms 55:7KJV

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Psalms 85:13KJV

And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

Joshua 5:10KJV

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Genesis 22:3KJV

And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

Judges 19:17KJV

Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

1 Samuel 2:19KJV

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 many days.

Deuteronomy 2:1KJV

I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:

Psalms 26:6KJV

Thou art my portion, O Lord: I have said that I would keep thy words.

Psalms 119:57KJV

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

Genesis 22:4KJV

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

Psalms 73:25KJV

Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;

Deuteronomy 2:28KJV

That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 23:43KJV

But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:6KJV

For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

Exodus 19:2KJV

And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:28KJV

So we abode in the valley over against Beth–peor.

Deuteronomy 3:29KJV

And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer–sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

Genesis 46:1KJV

And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene–jaakan.

Numbers 33:31KJV

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

Psalms 87:3KJV

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Genesis 47:9KJV

From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.

Deuteronomy 10:7KJV

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Psalms 48:12KJV

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

Psalms 84:7KJV

And Jacob went out from Beer–sheba, and went toward Haran.

Genesis 28:10KJV

And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon–parez.

Numbers 33:19KJV

And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.

Numbers 33:34KJV

And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.

Numbers 21:10KJV

If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth–lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

1 Samuel 20:6KJV

And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.

Numbers 33:43KJV

And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

Numbers 33:6KJV

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Job 23:11KJV

And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan–aram; and pitched his tent before the city.

Genesis 33:18KJV

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Song of Solomon 3:2KJV

I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.

Psalms 138:1KJV

And they removed from Almon–diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

Numbers 33:47KJV

So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.

Judges 18:21KJV

And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije–abarim, in the border of Moab.

Numbers 33:44KJV

And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

Genesis 25:18KJV

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

Psalms 104:8KJV

To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

Psalms 63:2KJV

And they went from Hor–hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.

Numbers 33:33KJV

And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth–lehem–judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth–lehem–judah, but I am now going to the house of the Lord; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.

Judges 19:18KJV

So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

2 Samuel 24:8KJV

And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

Genesis 31:23KJV

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Psalms 51:12KJV

For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year.

Exodus 34:24KJV

And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:

Joshua 18:18KJV

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

Exodus 23:20KJV

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

Proverbs 7:20KJV

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

Genesis 26:17KJV

And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

Genesis 28:19KJV

And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.

Numbers 33:23KJV

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

Psalms 114:1KJV

And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

Numbers 33:13KJV

And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:

Exodus 40:36KJV

And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

Ezra 8:32KJV

Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

Psalms 5:8KJV

That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying,

Deuteronomy 31:25KJV

And they departed from Kibroth–hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.

Numbers 33:17KJV

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

Isaiah 33:17KJV

Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.

Exodus 23:17KJV

I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

Deuteronomy 3:25KJV

And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 33:15KJV

And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.

Numbers 33:26KJV

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

Exodus 6:4KJV

And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.

2 Samuel 15:17KJV

And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.

Numbers 33:18KJV

The Bible's verses on pilgrimage offer a powerful metaphor for the Christian life, portraying it as a journey of faith, devotion, and transformation. Whether physically traveling to sacred sites or metaphorically navigating life's challenges, these passages remind us of our transient nature and the ultimate destination: a closer relationship with God. They underscore the importance of intentionality, sacrifice, and unwavering faith amidst trials. Reflecting on these verses encourages us to embrace the pilgrimage mindset, continuously seeking spiritual growth, prioritizing eternal values, and relying on God's guidance. May we all live as pilgrims, journeying towards holiness and carrying the light of Christ on our path, ultimately inspiring others to join us on this transformative journey.