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 yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Exodus 24:18
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and got him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deuteronomy 10:10
And I stayed in the mount, the same as the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.

General references

Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Job 36:28
Which the clouds do drop and pour upon man abundantly.