Thematic Bible: Forty


Thematic Bible



So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.


May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord! But may those who love you shine like the rising sun at its brightest!" And the land had rest for forty years.

The land had rest for forty years; then Othniel son of Kenaz died.

The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites' fighting spirit was broken. The land had rest for forty years during Gideon's time.


The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.



Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days -- one day for a year -- you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.


No human foot will pass through it, and no animal's foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.


"'For this is what the sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.


So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.


They returned from investigating the land after forty days.


When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, "At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"


The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.


They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.


"When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days -- I have assigned one day for each year.


At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark


To the same apostles also, after his suffering, he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God.




The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.



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