9 Bible Verses about The Number Forty

Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil: there having fasted forty days and forty nights, he at length grew hungry.

where he continued forty days, being tempted by Satan: and when he was among the wild beasts, angels ministred unto him.

Now Jesus being full of the holy spirit, return'd from Jordan, and was led by the spirit into the desart, being forty days tempted by the devil, without eating any thing all that while: but that time expired, he at last was seiz'd with hunger.

to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, of which they had many proofs, during the forty days he appear'd to them, and inform'd them about the reign of the Messias:

where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works. wherefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, they do alway err in their hearts; and they have not known my ways. so I swear in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."read more.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you such incredulity as to make you desert the living God. but exhort one another daily while the day lasts, lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin. for we were receiv'd into the communion of Christ, upon condition of inviolably maintaining the hope we had at the beginning even unto the end, which is imply'd by, "to-day since ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as at Meriba." for some when they had heard his voice, did provoke him: however, not all that were brought out of Egypt by Moses did so. but with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with those that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the desert?

he it was, who delivered them by doing prodigies and miracles in the land of Egypt, in the red sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

for forty years he maintain'd them in the wilderness.

when he was full forty years old, he took the resolution to visit his brethren the children of Israel. and seeing one of them abus'd, he defended him, and avenged the injury by killing the Egyptian: for he supposed his brethren would have perceiv'd by this, that God design'd to make him the instrument of their deliverance; but they did not perceive it.read more.
the next day seeing some that were fighting, he would have persuaded them to agree, saying, sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye injure one another? but he that did his neighbour the injury repelled Moses, saying, who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? will you kill me as you kill'd the Egyptian yesterday? at these words Moses fled, and went to reside in the land of Madian, where he became the father of two sons. when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina, an angel of the Lord in a flaming bush.

when having demanded a king, God gave them Saul the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin: the government of both having lasted forty years,