14 Bible Verses about Forty Days

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,

but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:

He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it,

"'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

"So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

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.

The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

"So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

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.

The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."

And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.

but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways."

And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.

Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."

There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,

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

And because the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, 'Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven periods of time pass over him,'

So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

"So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

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.

The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.