9 Bible Verses about Forty Years
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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
And LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of LORD was consumed.
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old upon you, and thy shoe has not grown old upon thy foot.
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it. Neither shall it be inhabited forty years. And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate. And her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the natio For thus says lord LORD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered,
And afterward they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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Israel » Under the judges » Led » Eli » Forty years
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that [Eli] fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate. And his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty year
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Forty years
Forty years long I was grieved with [that] generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.
And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited. They ate the 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.
Punon » Israelite camp » Forty years » Wondering
And they journeyed from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon. And they journeyed from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.