So the land had rest forty years. Then Oth'ni-el the son of Kenaz died.

"So perish all thine enemies, O LORD! But thy friends be like the sun as he rises in his might." And the land had rest for forty years.

So Mid'ian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy asses; and he judged Israel eight years.

When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right; then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the E'phraimites.