8 Bible Verses about 40 To 50 Years

"But at the end of forty years there appeared to him, in the desert of Mt. Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush.

"This was he who brought them out, after he had shown signs and wonders in the wilderness, for forty years.

"So God turned from them, and gave them up to the worship of the heavenly host, as it is written in the book of the Prophets. "Did you offer unto me slain beasts as sacrifices during the forty years in the wilderness, O House of Israel?

"For about forty years he bore with them in the desert,

When your forefathers tried my forbearance And saw my deeds for forty years.

And with whom was he grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

"Then they asked for a king, and he gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a Benjamite for forty years.

The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"