Hebrews 3:9

A Serious Warning Against Unbelief

⁸ "Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness. ⁹ "There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years. ¹⁰ "Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, 'Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.'

Forty Years

Mighty Deeds

Acts 7:36

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Exodus 19:4

You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I lifted you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.

Exodus 20:22

The Lord said to Moses: "Thus you will tell the Israelites: 'You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.

Numbers 14:33

and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 4:3

You have witnessed what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.

Deuteronomy 4:9

Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 8:4

Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

Deuteronomy 11:7

I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord!

Deuteronomy 29:2

Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: "You have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

Joshua 5:6

Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the Lord, died off. For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.

Joshua 23:3

You saw everything the Lord your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the Lord your God fights for you.

Joshua 24:7

Your fathers cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.

Amos 2:10

I brought you up from the land of Egypt; I led you through the wilderness for forty years so you could take the Amorites' land as your own.

Luke 7:22

So he answered them, "Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Acts 13:8

But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.