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I came to the exiles at Tel-abib by the Chebar River and sat down among them for seven days, appalled. Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsWeeksPeople AppalledRivers As Places Of Prayer

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God stopped working on everything that he had been creating. Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For GodSevenSabbath, In OtConsecrationThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7Holy TimesBlessed By GodCreationGod's CreationSanctification

Seven days from now I'll send rain on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, and I'll destroy every living creature that I've made." Verse ConceptsFlood, TheRainWeeksElements, Control OfDivine Power Over NatureSeven DaysMore Than One MonthGod KillingGod Killing All People

So we located some disciples and stayed there for seven days. Through the Spirit, they kept telling Paul not to go to Jerusalem, Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysWarning IndividualsSpeaking By The Spirit

After the Festival of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days. Verse ConceptsPaul, Life OfWeeksFour Or Five DaysSeven DaysSea Travel

Aaron's son, who is priest in his place, is to wear them for seven days when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place. Verse ConceptsWeeksSevenSeven DaysPriests Garments

Seven days after the LORD had struck the Nile River, Verse ConceptsWeeksSevenSeven Days

The elders of Jabesh told him, "Leave us alone for seven days so that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then if no one delivers us, we will come out to you and surrender." Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysLeave Us AloneSurrender

Saul waited seven days for the appointment set by Samuel. When Samuel did not arrive at Gilgal, as the people began to scatter from Saul, Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysPeople WaitingScattering FollowersWaiting For God's Timing

There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. After this, we arrived in Rome. Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofWeeksSeven Days

For forty years I loathed that generation, so I said, "They are a people whose hearts continuously err, and they have not understood my ways." Verse ConceptsKnowing God's WaysRejection Of GodThe Number FortySin, Nature OfWay, TheIgnorance Towards God, Examples Of40 To 50 YearsFalling Away From God

and your children will wander throughout the wilderness for 40 years. They'll bear the consequences of your idolatries until your bodies are entirely consumed in the wilderness. Verse ConceptsMonotonyUnfaithfulness, To GodParents SinDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentThose Who Kept Stock

The Israelis ate manna for 40 years until they came to a land where they could settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 Years

As a result, the land was quiet for 40 years. Then Kenaz' son Othniel died. Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsTime Of Peace

Neither man nor beast will walk through that area. It won't even be inhabited for 40 years. Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyBoth Men And Animals Affected


Be advised that seven years of phenomenal abundance are coming throughout all the land of Egypt, Verse ConceptsPlenty In Egypt

the seven years of famine started, just as Joseph had predicted. It was an international famine, but there was food everywhere throughout the land of Egypt.

"Your majesty saw a holy observer descending from heaven and saying, "Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump in the ground, along with its roots, bound with iron and bronze in the field grass. Let him be soaked with the dew of the sky and live with the wild animals of the field until seven seasons pass over him.' Verse ConceptsStumps Of A TreeFelling TreesSeven YearsIron ObjectsRelation Of Animals To ManSpecific Holy Individuals

While Moses was there with the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights, he did not eat or drink. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyWaterForty DaysTen ThingsMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Law Given Through Moses

When Moses went up on the mountain, he went into the center of the cloud and was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthGoing Up Mountains

I fell down in the LORD's presence for 40 days and nights, because the LORD said he was ready to destroy you. Verse ConceptsForty DaysSecret PrayerMore Than One MonthGod Might Kill His People

This entire land will be a desolation and a waste, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine Gift70 To 80 YearsServing Kings

For 40 days the Philistine would come forward, morning and evening, to take his position. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyStandingForty DaysMore Than One MonthAt Morning And Evening

Then the LORD told Moses, "Gather together for me 70 men who are elders of Israel, men whom you know to be elders of the people and officers over them. Then bring them to the Tent of Meeting and let them stand there with you. Verse ConceptsSeventiesLeadersIdentityResponsibilityThe Elderlyeldersorganizationgathering


At the end of 40 days, they all returned from exploring the land, Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One Monthexploring

It took 40 days to complete the process, the normal period required for embalming. Meanwhile, the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days. Verse ConceptsLossForty DaysMore Than One MonthTwo To Four MonthsPreparation For Burial

So Elijah got up, ate and drank, and survived on that one meal for 40 days and nights as he set out on his journey to Horeb, God's mountain. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

The flood continued throughout the earth for 40 days, while the flood waters increased, lifting the ark so that it rose above the surface of the earth. Verse ConceptsNoah's ArkForty DaysShipsMore Than One MonthThings Lifted UpThings On HighFloods

Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Verse ConceptsIniquity, Christ's Relation ToCompletionGod, The EternalLast DaysSealsWeeksImputed RighteousnessThe Anointed OneSeventy100 Years And MoreEternal BlessingSealing The MessageVisions From GodProphecy AbolishedEnd Of ActionsAnointing ThingsHoly CityReconciliationfinishing

After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthThe Act Of Opening

When you have completed this, you are to sleep on your right side, symbolically bearing the iniquity of Judah for 40 days. Each day that I've assigned to you represents one year. Verse ConceptsForty DaysDoing Things TwiceOne DayMore Than One Month40 To 50 YearsCarrying SinOther Right PartsGod's People Sinning

After this, the Lord appointed 70 other disciples and was about to send them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place that he intended to go. Verse Conceptsevangelists, ministry ofMissionaries, Call OfCompanionshipMissionary Work, Examples OfSeventyTwo DisciplesPeople Going BeforeSeventiesChrist SendingMissionariesDiscipleshipgroups

Now Nineveh was a very large city, requiring a three-day journey to cross through it. As Jonah started into the city on the first day's journey, he proclaimed the message, "40 days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!" Verse ConceptsHeraldMissionaries, Task OfProphets, Role OfThe Number FortyForty DaysOne DayMore Than One Month



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