9 Bible Verses about The Number Forty

THEN was Jesus led away by the spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he became hungry.

And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministred unto him.

THEN Jesus full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the spirit into the wilderness, being tempted forty days by the devil; and did eat nothing during those days: and when they were ended, afterwards he was hungry.

to whom also he had shewed himself alive, after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, during forty days being frequently seen by them, and speaking of the things which relate to the kingdom of God:

when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works during forty years. Wherefore I was provoked against that generation, and said, They are always deluded in heart, and they have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.read more.
Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any one of you a wicked heart of infidelity, [evident] in departure from the living God: but exhort one another daily, whilst to-day remains, that no one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we are partakers with Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end; while it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation. For some, though they had heard, provoked him; yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses. But against whom was he incensed forty years? Was it not against those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

He brought them forth, after performing miracles and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

And about the space of forty years he bore with their behaviour in the wilderness.

But when he had completed his fortieth year, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. And seeing one of them treated injuriously, he defended him, and executed vengeance for him who had suffered the outrage, smiting the Egyptian. For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand would give them deliverance: but they understood not.read more.
And the following day he shewed himself to them as they were fighting, and urged them to peace, saying, My friends, ye are brethren; wherefore do ye ill treat one another? Then he who did his neighbour wrong thrust him from him, saying, Who appointed thee a ruler and a judge over us? Wilt thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday? Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons. And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the desert of mount Sinai the angel of the Lord, in a flame of fire in a bush.

And from that time they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.