Thematic Bible: Periods and numbers
Thematic Bible
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven days
And I shall go to the captivity, the hill of the green ears, those dwelling at the river Chebar, and where they are sitting there, I shall sit there seven days, being astonished in the midst of them.
And God will praise the seventh day, and will consecrate it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God formed to make.
For yet seven days, and I will give rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will wipe out every living thing which I made from the face of the earth.
And having found disciples, we remained there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem.
And we sailed forth after the days of unleavened from Philippi, and came to them in Troas up to five days; where we tarried seven days.
Seven days he from his sons being priest in his stead, shall put them on when he shall come into the tent of the appointment to serve in the holy place.
And the old men of Jabesh will say to him, Let go to us seven days, and we will send messengers in every bound of Israel: and if none save us we will come forth to thee.
And he will wait some days according to the appointment which was of Samuel: and Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
Where having found brethren, we were besought by them to tarry yet seven days longer: and so we came to Rome.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Forty years
Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways:
And your sons shall be fed in the desert forty years, and bear your fornications till your carcasses be finished in the desert
And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years till they came to a land inhabited: they ate the portion till they came to the extremity of the land of Canaan.
The foot of man shall not pass through it, and the foot of cattle shall not pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited forty years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven years
And Jacob will love Rachel, and will say, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy daughter the small.
And the seven years of famine will begin to come, according to that Joseph said: and the famine will be in all the lands; and in all the land of Egypt was bread.
And that the king saw a watcher and a holy one came down from the heavens, and said, Hew down the tree and destroy it; but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and brass in the tender grass of the open field; and with the dew of the heavens it shall be wet, and with the beasts of the open field its portion, even till seven times shall pass over him;
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses on the mount fasting
And he will be there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate not bread and drank not water. And he will write upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.
And Moses will come into the midst of the cloud, and will go up to the mountain: and Moses will be in the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses in prayer for israel
And I shall fall down before Jehovah forty days and forty nights, as I fell down; for Jehovah said to destroy you.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Years of captivity
All this land was for a waste, for a desolation, and these nations served the king of Babel seventy years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Goliath's defiance lasted
And he of the rovers will draw near, the morning and the evening, and he will take a stand forty days.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Seventy elders appointed
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the old men of Israel, whom thou knewest that they were old men of the people, and their scribes; and take them to the tent of appointment, and they shall stand there with thee.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Times of forgiveness
And Jesus says to him, I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Spies in the land of canaan
Periods and numbers » Forty days » The embalming of jacob occupied
And they will fill up forty days for him: for so will they fill up the days of the embalmed: and the Egyptians will weep for him seventy days.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Elijah's meal lasted
And he will rise and eat and drink, and go in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, even to the mountain of God, Horeb.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Flood lasted
And the flood shall be forty days upon the earth, and the waters shall multiply, and shall take up the ark, and it shall be lifted up from above the earth.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Weeks referred to by daniel
Seventy seventy were divided upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to expiate iniquity, and to bring in eternal justice, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holy of holies.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Noah sends forth a raven at end of
And it shall be from the end of forty days Noah shall open the window of the ark which he made.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
And finishing these, and thou didst lie upon thy right side the second time, and thou didst bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: a day for a year, a day for a year I gave it to thee,
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Disciples sent forth
And after these the Lord showed forth other seventy, and sent them together two and two before his face into every city and place, where he was about to come.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
And Jonah will begin to go in to the city the going of one day, and he will call, and say, Yet forty days and Nineveh being overthrown.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's appearance after the resurrection
To them also he presented himself living, after he suffered, by many infallible signs, through forty days seen to them, and speaking the things of the kingdom of God:
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's temptation
Being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days: and they having ended, he afterward hungered.