9 Bible Verses about Forty Years

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Genesis 25:20

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Exodus 16:35

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 border of the land of Canaan.

Numbers 32:13

Jehovah's anger blazed against the Israelites. Therefore he made them wander in the desert for forty years until the whole generation of those who had done evil in Jehovah's presence was gone.

Deuteronomy 29:5

I led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you. Your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

Judges 3:11

There was peace in the land for forty years until Othniel died.

Ezekiel 29:11-13

A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years. So I will make the land of Egypt desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands. The Lord Jehovah says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.

Acts 13:21

Afterward they desired a king. God gave Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, to them for forty years.

1 Kings 2:11

He was king of Israel for forty years. He ruled seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 11:42

He was king in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.

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Israel » Under the judges » Led » Eli » Forty years

1 Samuel 4:18

When the man mentioned the Ark of God Eli fell backward from his seat beside the gate. He was so old and fat that the fall broke his neck and he died. He was a leader in Israel for forty years.

Periods and numbers » Forty days » Forty years

Psalm 95:10

For forty years I was grieved with this generation. I said: It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.

Numbers 14:33

Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert.

Exodus 16:35

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 border of the land of Canaan.

Judges 3:11

There was peace in the land for forty years until Othniel died.

Ezekiel 29:11

A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

Punon » Israelite camp » Forty years » Wondering

Numbers 33:42-43

They moved from Zalmonah and set up camp at Punon. The Israelites moved from Punon and set up camp at Oboth.

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