Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

General references

Bible References

Forty

Genesis 7:4
In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
Exodus 24:18
Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
Deuteronomy 10:10
I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.
Matthew 4:2
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

General references

Genesis 7:17
The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Job 36:28
Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.