Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

Of forty

Bible References

And gave

Romans 1:24
Therefore God gave them up, in the lusts of their hearts, to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves:
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and in all the deception of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they did not receive the divine love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Of forty

Hebrews 3:9
whom our fathers tempted in proving me, and saw my works forty years.