40 Bible Verses about 40 To 50 Years

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Acts 7:30

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush.

Numbers 32:13

So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the Lord was destroyed.

Deuteronomy 2:7

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all that you have done; He has known your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.”’

Deuteronomy 8:4

Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

Deuteronomy 29:5

I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

Joshua 5:6

For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord, to whom the Lord had sworn that He would not let them see the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Nehemiah 9:21

“Indeed, forty years You provided for them in the wilderness and they were not in want;
Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell.

Amos 2:10

“It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And I led you in the wilderness forty years
That you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

Amos 5:25

“Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

Acts 7:36

This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

Acts 7:42

But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?

Acts 13:18

For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

Hebrews 3:9

Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,
And saw My works for forty years.

Numbers 14:34

According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition.

Exodus 16:35

The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Psalm 95:10

“For forty years I loathed that generation,
And said they are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not know My ways.

Hebrews 3:17

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

Judges 13:1

Now the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, so that the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.

Judges 3:11

Then the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

Judges 5:31

“Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord;
But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.”
And the land was undisturbed for forty years.

Judges 8:28

So Midian was subdued before the sons of Israel, and they did not lift up their heads anymore. And the land was undisturbed for forty years in the days of Gideon.

1 Samuel 4:18

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for he was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years.

Acts 13:21

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

2 Samuel 5:4

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

1 Kings 2:11

The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 29:27

The period which he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.

1 Kings 11:42

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

2 Chronicles 9:30

Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel.

2 Kings 12:1

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

2 Chronicles 24:1

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

Ezekiel 4:6

When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year.

Ezekiel 29:11-12

A man’s foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years. So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”

1 Kings 15:10

He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

2 Chronicles 16:13

So Asa slept with his fathers, having died in the forty-first year of his reign.

2 Kings 14:23

In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years.

Joshua 14:10

Now behold, the Lord has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and now behold, I am eighty-five years old today.

John 2:20

The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

Leviticus 25:8

‘You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.

Daniel 9:25

So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

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