Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

General references

Bible References

Forty

Joshua 11:18
Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
Numbers 14:33
And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

General references

Numbers 14:38
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
Psalm 91:7
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, [but] it shall not come near thee.