"And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, there shall be six cities of franchise which ye shall give to that intent that he which committeth a slaughter, may fly thither. And to them ye shall add forty two cities more:

Then the other answered, "Then say, 'Shibboleth.'" And they said, "Syboleth" - and could not so pronounce. Whereupon the others took them and slew them at the passages of Jordan. And there were overthrown at that time, of the Ephraimites, forty two thousand.

And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came two bears out of the wood and tare forty two of the boys.

And he said, "Take them alive." And they took them alive, and slew them at the well beside the house where the shepherds bind their sheep, in number forty two persons; that he left none of them.

Sixteen years old was he when he was made king, and he reigned forty two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah, and was of Jerusalem.

All these were of the children of Obededom, which, with their brethren and their children, active men of strength to do service, were forty two of Obededom.

but the court which is without the temple cast out, and mete it not: for it is given unto the gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty two months.

And there was a mouth given unto him that spake great things, and blasphemies, and power was given unto him, to continue forty two months.

And when the forty days and forty nights were ended, the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,

and his brethren, chief among the fathers: of whom there were two hundred and two and forty. And Amahsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer:

and thou shalt make forty sockets of silver and put them under the twenty boards: two sockets under every board, for their two feet.

and forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under every board, even for the two feet of them.

The children of Pashhur, a thousand, and two hundred and seven and forty;

The whole congregation as one man, was two and forty thousand, three hundred and threescore;

seven hundred and six and thirty horses, two hundred and five and forty mules,

The men of Bethazmaveth, two and forty;

The children of Pashhur, a thousand, two hundred and seven and forty;

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and two and forty.

The whole congregation as one man, was two and forty thousand, three hundred and threescore;

Beside their servants and maidens, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and seven and thirty. And they had two hundred and seven and forty singing men and women,

seven hundred and six and thirty horses, two hundred and five and forty Mules,

And Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel - and reigned two years. But the house of Judah only followed David.

and forty sockets of silver: two sockets under every board.

they made other twenty boards with forty sockets of silver, two sockets under every board.

Two and forty years old was he when he began to reign, and reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

The children of Bani, six hundred and two and forty;

The children of Azmaveth, two and forty;

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward a hungered.

For seven days hence will I send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights and will destroy all manner of things that I have made, from off the face of the earth."

and there fell a rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth, and the water increased and bare up the ark and it was lift up from off the earth.

And he spake unto him yet again, and said, "What if there be forty found there?" And he said, "I will not do it for forty's sake."

And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights, unto Horeb the mount of God,

And Moses went into the mountain. And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights, and neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote in the tables the words of the covenant: even ten verses.

after the number of the days in which ye searched out the land forty days, and every day a year: so that they shall bear your unrighteousness forty years, and ye shall feel my vengeance.

after that I was gone up into the mount, to fetch the tables of stone, the tables of covenant which the LORD made with you. And I abode in the hill forty days and forty nights and neither ate bread nor drank water.

And I fell before the LORD, forty days and forty nights which I lay there, for the LORD was minded to have destroyed you.

And I tarried in the mount, even as at the first time forty days and forty nights, and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, so that the LORD would not destroy thee.

And I heard the number of them which were sealed, and there were sealed a hundred and forty four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Again: I brought you out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, that ye might have the Amorites' land in possession.

O ye house of Israel, gave ye me offerings and sacrifices those forty years long in the wilderness?

And I looked, and, lo, a lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty four thousand having his father's name written in their foreheads.

And they sang as it were a new song, before the seat, and before the four beasts, and the elders and no man could learn that song, but the hundred and forty four thousand which were redeemed from the earth.

And Jonah went to and entered into the city even a day's journey, and cried, saying, "There shall not pass forty days but Nineveh shall be overthrown."

And he measured the wall thereof a hundred and forty four cubits: the measure that the angel had was after the measure that man useth.

and he was there in the wilderness forty days, and was tempted of Satan, and was with wild beasts. And the angels ministered unto him.

and was forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days ate he nothing: And when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

Then said the Jews, "Forty six years was this temple a building: and wilt thou raise it up in three days?"

to whom also he showed himself alive, after his passion, by many tokens; appearing unto them forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God;

For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was showed.

And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.

"And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

And the same brought them out showing wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the reed sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Then God turned himself, and gave them up, that they should worship the stars of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'O ye of the house of Israel: gave ye to me sacrifices and meat offerings by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

And about the time of forty years, suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

And after that they desired a king, and God gave unto them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

They were about forty which had made this conspiration.

But follow not their minds: for there lie in wait for him of them, more than forty men, which have bound themselves with a vow, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now are they ready, and look for thy promise."

in death often. Of the Jews, five times received I, every time, forty stripes, save one.

where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long.

But with whom was he displeased forty years? Was he not displeased with them that sinned: whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

The breadth of the door was ten cubits and the walls of the door on either side five cubits. He measured the length thereof, which contained forty cubits, and the breadth twenty.

Yea in all the four corners of the court, there was made a little court of forty cubits long, and thirty broad: these four little courts were of one like measure,

And at forty years' end Absalom said unto the king, "Let me go, I pray thee, to Hebron; and pay my vow which I have vowed unto the LORD.

The children of Jericho, three hundred and five and forty;

And when he made mention of the ark of God, Eli fell from off his stool backward toward the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was old and unwieldy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

For the old captains that were before me, had been chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, and forty sicles of silver: yea and their servants had oppressed the people. But so did not I, and that because of the fear of God.

The children of Zattu, eight hundred and five and forty;

The children of Binnui, six hundred and eight and forty;

The men of Kiriathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and three and forty;

The children of Jericho, three hundred and five and forty;

And the Philistine came forth every morning and evening, and continued forty days.

The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and eight and forty.

Forty years long madest thou provision for them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

Howbeit, the Syrians fled before Israel. And David destroyed seven hundred chariots of them and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of his host, that he there died.

And Kenan, after he had begot Mahalalel, lived eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

And after the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,

And the days which David reigned upon Israel were forty years: seven years in Hebron, and thirty and three years in Jerusalem.

What though there lack five of fifty righteous, wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five?" And he said, "If I find there forty and five I will not destroy them."

After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.

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

And the first house, that is to say, the body of the temple, was forty cubits long.

And the roof was Cedar above on high upon the beams that lay a high on the pillars, which pillars were forty and five in number, fifteen on a row,

Then he made ten lavers of brass containing forty baths apiece, and they were of four cubits apiece, for every one of the bottoms a laver.

thirty milch camels with their colts: forty cows and ten bulls: twenty she asses and ten foals

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia and sister to Laban the Syrian.

And afterward his brother came out, and his hand holding Esau by the heel. Wherefore his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was forty years old when she bare them:

When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri, an Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon, an Hittite also,

And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem upon all Israel, was forty years.

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

and ruled in Jerusalem forty one years. And his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

Moreover, Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so that the whole age of Jacob was a hundred and forty seven years.

And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long,

And the children of Israel ate Manna forty years until they came unto a land inhabited. And so they ate Manna, even until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan;

Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, "They ever err in their hearts, they verily have not known my ways."

And Hazael went to meet him and took presents with him, even of all the good things of Damascus - as much as forty camels could bear - and came and presented himself before him and said, "Thy son Benhadad, king of Syria, hath sent me to thee, saying, 'Shall I recover of this my disease?'"

And he began to reign the seventh year of Jehu, and reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

The fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Jehoash king of Judah, was Jeroboam son of Joash made king over Israel in Samaria and reigned forty one years,