9 Bible Verses about Forty Years
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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia and sister to Laban the Syrian.
And the children of Israel ate Manna forty years until they came unto a land inhabited. And so they ate Manna, even until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan;
And the LORD was angry with Israel, and made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD were consumed.
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: and your clothes are not waxed old upon you, nor are thy shoes waxed old upon thy feet.
so that in forty years there shall no foot of man walk there, neither foot of cattle go there, neither shall it be inhabited. I will make the land of Egypt to be desolate among other waste countries, and her cities to lie void forty years, among other void cities: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the Heathen and nations. Again, thus sayeth the LORD God: When the forty years are expired I will gather the Egyptians together again, out of the nations, among whom they were scattered,
And after that they desired a king, and God gave unto them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
And the days which David reigned upon Israel were forty years: seven years in Hebron, and thirty and three years in Jerusalem.
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem upon all Israel, was forty years.
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Israel » Under the judges » Led » Eli » Forty years
And when he made mention of the ark of God, Eli fell from off his stool backward toward the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was old and unwieldy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Forty years
Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, "They ever err in their hearts, they verily have not known my ways."
And your children shall wander in this wilderness forty years and suffer for your whoredom until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness,
And the children of Israel ate Manna forty years until they came unto a land inhabited. And so they ate Manna, even until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan;
so that in forty years there shall no foot of man walk there, neither foot of cattle go there, neither shall it be inhabited.
Punon » Israelite camp » Forty years » Wondering
And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon, and they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
