Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
General references
Bible References
Forty
Genesis 7:4
For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth.”
Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the midst of the cloud and went up the mountain; and he was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water.
Deuteronomy 10:10
“And I stayed on the mountain, like the first time, forty days and nights, and the Lord listened to me at that time also; the Lord was not willing to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength of that food he traveled forty days and nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry.
General references
Genesis 7:17
The flood [the great downpour of rain] was forty days and nights on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it floated [high] above the land.
Job 36:28
Which the clouds pour down,
They drop abundantly upon mankind.”
Which the clouds pour down,
They drop abundantly upon mankind.”