Thematic Bible: Periods and numbers
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Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven days
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.
God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. This is because he rested from all the work of creation he had done.
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.
Having found the disciples, we stayed there seven days. Guided by the Spirit the disciples urged Paul not to go to Jerusalem.
We sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread. Five days later we met them at Troas, where we stayed seven days.
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.
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.
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.
We came across some of the brothers, who kept us with them for seven days; and so we arrived at Rome.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Forty years
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.
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.
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.
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.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven years
Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said: I will work seven years for you, if you will let me marry Rachel.
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.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses on the mount fasting
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).
Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain. He was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses in prayer for israel
So I fell down prostrate before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights. I did this because Jehovah said he would destroy you.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Years of captivity
This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.'
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Goliath's defiance lasted
Each morning and evening for forty days the Philistine came forward and made his challenge.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Seventy elders appointed
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.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Times of forgiveness
Jesus said to him: Not 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
It took forty days, which is the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Elijah's meal lasted
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.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Flood lasted
The flood came upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark high above the earth.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Weeks referred to by daniel
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.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Noah sends forth a raven at end of
After forty days Noah opened the window he constructed in the ark.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
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.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Disciples sent forth
The Lord appointed seventy disciples and sent them in groups of 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
Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey walking, and he shouted: Nineveh will be overthrown in Forty days.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's appearance after the resurrection
He presented himself alive to them after his suffering. He gave many convincing proofs. He appeared to them during forty days speaking about the kingdom of God.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's temptation
He spent forty days in the wilderness being tempted by the devil. He did not eat anything during those days so when it was over he was hungry.