He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.

The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.

He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.

The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty-three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.