Thematic Bible: Periods and numbers


Thematic Bible



I went to Tel Abib, to the exiles that lived by the Chebar River. I sat there among them for seven days. I was stunned among them. Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsWeeksPeople AppalledRivers As Places Of Prayer

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. This is because he rested from all the work of creation he had done. 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 will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made. Verse ConceptsFlood, TheRainWeeksElements, Control OfDivine Power Over NatureSeven DaysMore Than One MonthGod KillingGod Killing All People

Having found the disciples, we stayed there seven days. Guided by the Spirit the disciples urged Paul not to go to Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysWarning IndividualsSpeaking By The Spirit

We sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread. Five days later we met them at Troas, where we stayed seven days. Verse ConceptsPaul, Life OfWeeksFour Or Five DaysSeven DaysSea Travel

For seven days the one of his sons who is priest in his stead shall put them on when he enters the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place. Verse ConceptsWeeksSevenSeven DaysPriests Garments

Seven days passed after Jehovah struck the Nile. Verse ConceptsWeeksSevenSeven Days

The elders of Jabesh said: Give us seven days to send messengers throughout the land of Israel. If no one will help us, then we will surrender to you. Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysLeave Us AloneSurrender

They were starting to run off and leave him. Saul waited there seven days, just as Samuel had ordered him to do. But Samuel did not come. Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysPeople WaitingScattering FollowersWaiting For God's Timing

We came across some of the brothers, who kept us with them for seven days; and so we arrived at Rome. Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofWeeksSeven Days

For forty years I was grieved with this generation. I said: It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways. Verse ConceptsKnowing God's WaysRejection Of GodThe Number FortySin, Nature OfWay, TheIgnorance Towards God, Examples Of40 To 50 YearsFalling Away From God

Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert. Verse ConceptsMonotonyUnfaithfulness, To GodParents SinDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentThose Who Kept Stock

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 border of the land of Canaan. Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 Years

There was peace in the land for forty years until Othniel died. Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsTime Of Peace

A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years. Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyBoth Men And Animals Affected


Seven years are coming when there will be plenty of food in Egypt. Verse ConceptsPlenty In Egypt

The seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every other country, but there was food throughout Egypt.

Since the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven saying: Chop down the tree, and destroy it. Leave the stump and the roots in the earth. With a band of iron and brass leave it in the tender grass of the field and let it be wet with the dew of heaven. Let its portion be with the beasts of the field till seven times pass over it. Verse ConceptsStumps Of A TreeFelling TreesSeven YearsIron ObjectsRelation Of Animals To ManSpecific Holy Individuals

Moses was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments (Ten Words). Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyWaterForty DaysTen ThingsMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Law Given Through Moses

Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain. He was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthGoing Up Mountains

So I fell down prostrate before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights. I did this because Jehovah said he would destroy you. Verse ConceptsForty DaysSecret PrayerMore Than One MonthGod Might Kill His People

This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.' Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine Gift70 To 80 YearsServing Kings

Each morning and evening for forty days the Philistine came forward and made his challenge. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyStandingForty DaysMore Than One MonthAt Morning And Evening

Jehovah replied to Moses: Assemble seventy respected men who are recognized as elders of the people. Bring them to me at the tent of my presence, and tell them to stand there beside you. Verse ConceptsSeventiesLeadersIdentityResponsibilityThe Elderlyeldersorganizationgathering


Forty days later they returned from exploring the land. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One Monthexploring

It took forty days, which is the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. Verse ConceptsLossForty DaysMore Than One MonthTwo To Four MonthsPreparation For Burial

So he got up and took food and drink. He was strengthened to go for forty days and forty nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

The flood came upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark high above the earth. Verse ConceptsNoah's ArkForty DaysShipsMore Than One MonthThings Lifted UpThings On HighFloods

Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, 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. 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 forty days Noah opened the window he constructed in the ark. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthThe Act Of Opening

After you have finished this lie down again. This time lie on your right side, and bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you forty days, a day for each year. Verse ConceptsForty DaysDoing Things TwiceOne DayMore Than One Month40 To 50 YearsCarrying SinOther Right PartsGod's People Sinning


Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey walking, and he shouted: Nineveh will be overthrown in Forty days. Verse ConceptsHeraldMissionaries, Task OfProphets, Role OfThe Number FortyForty DaysOne DayMore Than One Month