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 children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your harlotries, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

General references

Numbers 14:38
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
Psalm 91:7
A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.