"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 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.

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

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;

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 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."

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 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.

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,

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

In the twenty third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the chief Captain, took away seven hundred forty five Jews prisoners. The whole sum of all the prisoners is four thousand and six hundred.

When thou hast fulfilled these days, lie down again, and sleep upon thy right side forty days, and bear the sins of the house of Judah. A day for a year; a day, I say, for a year will I ever lay upon thee.

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.

so that in forty years there shall no foot of man walk there, neither foot of cattle go there, neither shall it be inhabited.

I will make the land of Egypt to be desolate among other waste countries, and her cities to lie void forty years, among other void cities: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the Heathen and nations.

Again, thus sayeth the LORD God: When the forty years are expired I will gather the Egyptians together again, out of the nations, among whom they were scattered,

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?

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 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.

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 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."

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."

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