Thematic Bible: Periods and numbers
Thematic Bible
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven days
Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the River Chebar at Tel Abib. I sat there for seven days [in the place] where they were living, overwhelmed with astonishment [by my vision and the work before me].
So God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it [as His own, that is, set it apart as holy from other days], because in it He rested from all His work which He had created and done.
For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth.”
After looking up the disciples [in Tyre], we stayed there [with them] seven days; and they kept telling Paul through the [Holy] Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.
We sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread (Passover week), and within five days we reached them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
That son who is [high] priest in his place shall put them on [each day for] seven days when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place.
The elders of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Give us seven days so that we may send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out [and surrender] to you.”
Now Saul waited seven days, according to the appointed time which Samuel had set, but Samuel had not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattering away from Saul.
There we found some believers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Forty years
“For forty years I was grieved and disgusted with that generation,
And I said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not acknowledge or regard My ways.’
Your sons shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness (spiritual infidelity), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they reached an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
And the land was at rest [from oppression for] forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
No man’s foot will pass through it, no animal’s foot will pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven years
Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you [as a hired workman] for seven years [in return] for [the privilege of marrying] Rachel your younger daughter.”
Listen very carefully: seven years of great abundance will come throughout all the land of Egypt;
the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said [they would]; the famine was in all the [surrounding] lands, but in the land of Egypt there was bread (food).
In that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, “Cut the tree down and destroy it; but leave the stump with its roots in the earth, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let him feed with the beasts of the field until seven periods of time pass over him,”
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses on the mount fasting
Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Moses entered the midst of the cloud and went up the mountain; and he was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses in prayer for israel
“So I fell down and lay face down before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Years of captivity
This whole land will be a waste and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Goliath's defiance lasted
The Philistine [Goliath] came out morning and evening, and took his stand for forty days.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Seventy elders appointed
Accordingly, the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for Me seventy men from among the elders of Israel whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers; bring them to the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle) and let them stand there with you.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Times of forgiveness
Jesus answered him, “I say to you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Spies in the land of canaan
Periods and numbers » Forty days » The embalming of jacob occupied
Now forty days were required for this, for that is the customary number of days [of preparation] required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept and grieved for him [in public mourning as they would for royalty] for seventy days.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Elijah's meal lasted
So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength of that food he traveled forty days and nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Flood lasted
The flood [the great downpour of rain] was forty days and nights on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it floated [high] above the land.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Weeks referred to by daniel
“Seventy weeks [of years, or 490 years] have been decreed for your people and for your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make atonement (reconciliation) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness (right-standing with God), to seal up vision and prophecy and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Noah sends forth a raven at end of
At the end of [another] forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
When you have completed these [days for Israel], lie down again, but on your right side (toward the south), and you shall bear the wickedness and punishment of the house of Judah forty days. I have assigned you one day for each year.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Disciples sent forth
Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them out ahead of Him, two by two, into every city and place where He was about to go.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
Then on the first day’s walk, Jonah began to go through the city, and he called out and said, “Forty days more [remain] and [then] Nineveh will be overthrown!”
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's appearance after the resurrection
To these [men] He also showed Himself alive after His suffering [in Gethsemane and on the cross], by [a series of] many infallible proofs and unquestionable demonstrations, appearing to them over a period of forty days and talking to them about the things concerning the kingdom of God.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's temptation
for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they ended, He was hungry.