Thematic Bible: Periods and numbers


Thematic Bible



Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river Chebar, and to where they dwelt; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

And having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days: and these said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.

And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days, where we tarried seven days.

Seven days shall the son that is priest in his stead put them on, when he cometh into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

And seven days were fulfilled, after that Jehovah had smitten the river.

And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to save us, we will come out to thee.

And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed : but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

where we found brethren, and were entreated to tarry with them seven days: and so we came to Rome.


Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:

And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

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

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

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



Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven: and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;


And he was there with Jehovah 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.

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


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


And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.


And Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.




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


And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days.


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


Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.


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


And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.


Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come.


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.






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