Thematic Bible: Periods and numbers


Thematic Bible



Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days. Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsWeeksPeople AppalledRivers As Places Of Prayer

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made. Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For GodSevenSabbath, In OtConsecrationThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7Holy TimesBlessed By GodCreationGod's CreationSanctification

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground." Verse ConceptsFlood, TheRainWeeksElements, Control OfDivine Power Over NatureSeven DaysMore Than One MonthGod KillingGod Killing All People

Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysWarning IndividualsSpeaking By The Spirit

We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days. Verse ConceptsPaul, Life OfWeeksFour Or Five DaysSeven DaysSea Travel

Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place. Verse ConceptsWeeksSevenSeven DaysPriests Garments

Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river. Verse ConceptsWeeksSevenSeven Days

The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven day, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you." Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysLeave Us AloneSurrender

He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysPeople WaitingScattering FollowersWaiting For God's Timing

where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome. Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofWeeksSeven Days

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. 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 shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. 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 borders of the land of Canaan. Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 Years

The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died. Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsTime Of Peace

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyBoth Men And Animals Affected


Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. Verse ConceptsPlenty In Egypt

The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless 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 the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him; Verse ConceptsStumps Of A TreeFelling TreesSeven YearsIron ObjectsRelation Of Animals To ManSpecific Holy Individuals

He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 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 into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthGoing Up Mountains

So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. Verse ConceptsForty DaysSecret PrayerMore Than One MonthGod Might Kill His People

This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine Gift70 To 80 YearsServing Kings

The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyStandingForty DaysMore Than One MonthAt Morning And Evening

Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. Verse ConceptsSeventiesLeadersIdentityResponsibilityThe Elderlyeldersorganizationgathering


They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One Monthexploring

Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days. Verse ConceptsLossForty DaysMore Than One MonthTwo To Four MonthsPreparation For Burial

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. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth. Verse ConceptsNoah's ArkForty DaysShipsMore Than One MonthThings Lifted UpThings On HighFloods

Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, 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

It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthThe Act Of Opening

Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you. Verse ConceptsForty DaysDoing Things TwiceOne DayMore Than One Month40 To 50 YearsCarrying SinOther Right PartsGod's People Sinning

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. Verse Conceptsevangelists, ministry ofMissionaries, Call OfCompanionshipMissionary Work, Examples OfSeventyTwo DisciplesPeople Going BeforeSeventiesChrist SendingMissionariesDiscipleshipgroups

Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!" Verse ConceptsHeraldMissionaries, Task OfProphets, Role OfThe Number FortyForty DaysOne DayMore Than One Month