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. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyWaterForty DaysTen ThingsMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Law Given Through Moses

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. Verse ConceptsFasting, Reasons ForWaterMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At Sinai

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. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthGoing Up Mountains

So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. Verse ConceptsForty DaysSecret PrayerMore Than One MonthGod Might Kill His People

"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. Verse ConceptsDawnDeborahNoonThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsEnemies Of GodTime Of PeaceLove And StrengthSunPeace And Strengthcrusades

The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died. Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsTime Of Peace

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. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyConquest40 To 50 YearsLifting HeadsTime Of Peace

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. Verse ConceptsBeatingsWhipsForties


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. Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 Years

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.' Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForKnowledge, Of GodThe Number FortyOne DayMore Than One Month40 To 50 YearsGod OpposingAccording To TimeComplainingexploringconsequenceswanderingland

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyBoth Men And Animals Affected

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

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. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One Monthexploring

Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!" Verse ConceptsHeraldMissionaries, Task OfProphets, Role OfThe Number FortyForty DaysOne DayMore Than One Month

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth. Verse ConceptsNoah's ArkForty DaysShipsMore Than One MonthThings Lifted UpThings On HighFloods

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. Verse ConceptsLossForty DaysMore Than One MonthTwo To Four MonthsPreparation For Burial

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. Verse ConceptsForty DaysDoing Things TwiceOne DayMore Than One Month40 To 50 YearsCarrying SinOther Right PartsGod's People Sinning

It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthThe Act Of Opening



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. Verse ConceptsBeatingsWhipsForties