Thematic Bible: Periods and numbers
Thematic Bible
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven days
Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
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."
Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.
The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven day, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you."
He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Forty years
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."
Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven years
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him;
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses on the mount fasting
He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
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.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses in prayer for israel
So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Years of captivity
This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Goliath's defiance lasted
The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Seventy elders appointed
Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Times of forgiveness
Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Spies in the land of canaan
Periods and numbers » Forty days » The embalming of jacob occupied
Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Elijah's meal lasted
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.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Flood lasted
The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Weeks referred to by daniel
Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Noah sends forth a raven at end of
It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Disciples sent forth
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's appearance after the resurrection
To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's temptation
for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.