Thematic Bible: Periods and numbers
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Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven days
Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Kebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God 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 substance that I have made will I destroy from the face of the earth.
And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
And we sailed away from Philippi, after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
And that son, that is priest in his stead, shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.
And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days respit, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel: and then, if there is no man 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 desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went towards Rome.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Forty years
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness.
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited: they ate manna, until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Seven years
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was 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 the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of its roots 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 its portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times shall pass over him;
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses on the mount fasting
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water: and he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mount: and Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Moses in prayer for israel
Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Years of captivity
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Goliath's defiance lasted
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Seventy elders appointed
And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to 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 to the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Times of forgiveness
Jesus saith to him, I say not to thee, Until seven times: but, Until 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 forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed:) and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Elijah's meal lasted
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Flood lasted
And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted above the earth.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Weeks referred to by daniel
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Noah sends forth a raven at end of
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Disciples sent forth
After these things, the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city, and place, whither he himself would come.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Jonah's warning concerning the destruction of nineveh
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.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's appearance after the resurrection
To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs, being seen by them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Christ's temptation
Being forty days tempted by the devil. And in those days he ate nothing; and when they were ended, he was afterward hungry.