Thematic Bible: Forty


Thematic Bible



He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.

Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.


"So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." Then the land had rest forty years.

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

So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.


Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.



The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.'


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


For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;


He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.


They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.


Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"


The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.


Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.


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


It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,






Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.