Forty

For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”

Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”

…and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

…taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

…with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

…and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

…with forty silver bases to put under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

…and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.

Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.

Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.

So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.

In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening to take his stand.

Saul’s son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.

But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.

The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”

In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach the commander of their army.

The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.

For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.

I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations to which they were scattered.

The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.

In the four corners of the outer court there were enclosed courts, each forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. Each of the four corner areas had the same dimensions.

And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

…and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.

…where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.

After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.

When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

More than forty of them were involved in this plot.

Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

…where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?