The cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty two years over Israel.

When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.

He said, “Take them alive.” So they took them alive and killed them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two men; and he left none of them.

Leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months.

There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.

You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons;

and he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.

and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.

It came about at the end of forty days and nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

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