Thematic Bible: Forty


Thematic Bible



And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and got him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.


So let all your enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when it goes forth in its might. And the land had rest forty years.

And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.


Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him more than these with many stripes, then your brother should seem degraded unto you.



And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the border of the land of Canaan.

After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.


No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.


Yet thus says the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people among whom they were scattered:


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


And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.


And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.


And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.


And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him three score and ten days.


And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.


And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:






Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him more than these with many stripes, then your brother should seem degraded unto you.