41 Bible Verses about The Number Forty

And Jonah will begin to go in to the city the going of one day, and he will call, and say, Yet forty days and Nineveh being overthrown.

For yet seven days, and I will give rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will wipe out every living thing which I made from the face of the earth. And Noah will do according to all which Jehovah commanded him. And Noah the son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters was upon the earth.read more.
And Noah shall come in, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him to the ark from the face of the water of the flood. From clean beasts, and from cattle which are not clean, and from birds and all which creeps upon the earth. Two and two went in to Noah to the ark, male and female, according to which God commanded Noah. And it shall be seven days; and the waters of the flood shall be upon the earth. In the year of six hundred years of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in the same day all the fountains of the great deep were divided and the sluices of the heavens were opened. And the rain shall be upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And it shall be from the end of forty days Noah shall open the window of the ark which he made.

And Moses will come into the midst of the cloud, and will go up to the mountain: and Moses will be in the mountain forty days and forty nights.

And he will be there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate not bread and drank not water. And he will write upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.

In my going up to the mount to take the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, and I shall dwell in the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate not bread and I drank not water: And Jehovah will give to me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and upon them according to all the words which Jehovah spake with you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the gathering. And it shall be from the end of forty days and forty nights, Jehovah gave to me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.read more.
And Jehovah will say to me, Arise, go from this mountain; for thy people were corrupted which thou broughtest forth from Egypt; they turned aside quickly from the way which thou didst command them; they made to themselves a molten thing. And Jehovah will say to me, saying, I saw this people, and behold, it a people of hard neck: Desist from me and I will destroy them, and I will wipe off their name from under the heavens: and I will make thee into a nation strong and many above them. to And I shall turn and come down from the mount, and the mount burnt with fire: and the two tables of the covenant upon my two hands. And I shall see, and behold, ye sinned against Jehovah your God; ye made to you a molten calf; ye turned aside quickly from the way which Jehovah commanded you. And I shall lay hold upon the two tables and I shall cast them from out of my two hands, and shall break them before your eyes. And I shall fall down before Jehovah as at the first; forty days and forty nights I ate not bread and I drank not water on account of all your sins that ye sinned to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to provoke him

Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the desert to be tried by the devil. And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

And he was there in the desert forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with wild beasts; and messengers were serving him.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from Jordan, and was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert, Being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days: and they having ended, he afterward hungered.

And they will turn back from searching out the land at the end of forty days.

And he of the rovers will draw near, the morning and the evening, and he will take a stand forty days.

And he will rise and eat and drink, and go in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, even to the mountain of God, Horeb.

To them also he presented himself living, after he suffered, by many infallible signs, through forty days seen to them, and speaking the things of the kingdom of God:

According to the number of days which ye searched out the land, forty days, a day a year, a day for a year, shall ye your iniquities; forty years, and ye knew my withdrawal.

And the anger of Jehovah will kindle against Israel, and he will cause them to wander in the desert forty years, till the finishing of all the generation having done evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

For forty years the sons of Israel went in the desert till all the people of the men of war coming out of Egypt were finished, who heard not to the voice of Jehovah: which Jehovah sware to them, not for them to see the land which Jehovah sware to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing milk and honey.

Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways:

Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways. As I aware in my wrath, If they shall come into my rest.)read more.
See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God. But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin. For we have been partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our foundation firm to the end; In that it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, ye should not harden your hearts, as in the exasperation. For some, having heard, did exasperate: but not all they having come out of Egypt by Moses. And with whom was he offended forty years? was it not with them having sinned, whose members fell in the desert?

And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years till they came to a land inhabited: they ate the portion till they came to the extremity of the land of Canaan.

For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in every work of thy hand: he knew thy going in this great desert: this forty years Jehovah thy God with thee; thou didst not lack a word.

And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not And he will humble thee, and cause thee to hunger, and will give thee to eat manna which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; so that he caused thee to know that upon bread only man shall not live, but upon all going out of the mouth of Jehovah shall man live. Thy garments decayed not from thee, and thy feet swelled not this forty years.

And I shall lead you forty years in the desert: your garments did not fall away from you, and thy shoe was not warn away from thy foot

And forty years thou didst nourish them in the desert; they wanted not; their garments fell not away, and their feet swelled not

And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and I will cause you to come into the desert forty years to possess the land of the Amorite.

He brought them out, having done wonders and sign in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the desert forty years.

And about forty years time he bare them in the desert.

And Moses the son of eighty years, and Aaron the son of three and eighty years, in their speaking to Pharaoh.

And Moses the son of a hundred and twenty years in his dying: his eye was not weak, and the freshness fled not

And when the time of forty years was completed to him, it came up upon his heart to take a view of his brethren the sons of Israel. And having seen a certain one injured, he defended, and did vengeance for him harassed, having struck the Egyptian, And he supposed his brethren to understand that God by his hand gives them salvation: and they understood not.read more.
And the following day he was seen to those contending, and he compelled them to peace, having said, Men, ye are brethren; wherefore injure ye one another? And he injuring the neighbor repulsed him, having said, Who set thee a ruler and judge over us? Wilt thou not kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday? And Moses fled at this word, and he was a sojourner in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons. And forty years completed, a messenger of the Lord was seen to him in the desert of mount Sina, in a flame of fire in a bramble.

And the land will rest forty years: and Othniel, son of Kenaz, will die.

So shall all thine enemies perish, O Jehovah: And those loving him, as the going forth of the sun in his strength. And the land will rest forty years.

And Midian will be subdued before the sons of Israel, and they will not add to lift up their head: and the land will rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

And it will be when he made mention of the ark of God, and he will fall from off the seat backwards by the side of the gate, and his neck will break, and he will die: for he was an old Man and heavy. And he judged Israel forty years.

The son of thirty years was David in his reigning, and he reigned forty years.

And the days that David reigned over Israel, forty years: in Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.

And the days which he reigned over Israel were forty years; in Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three.

And the days which Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel were forty years.

And Solomon will reign in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

In the seventh year to Jehu, Jehoash reigned; and forty years he reigned in Jerusalem And his mother's name Zibiah, from the Well of the Oath.

The son of seven years was Joash in his reigning, and forty years he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother's name Zibeah from the Well of the Oath.

And thence they desired a king; and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.