41 Bible Verses about The Number Forty

Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey walking, and he shouted: Nineveh will be overthrown in Forty days.

Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made. Noah did all that Jehovah commanded him. Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.read more.
Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, male and female came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. Seven days passed and the floodwaters came on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. Rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

After forty days Noah opened the window he constructed in the ark.

Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain. He was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Moses was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments (Ten Words).

When I went up on the mountain to get the stone tablets, the tablets of the promise that Jehovah made to you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights without food or water. Then Jehovah gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by God's finger (Holy Spirit). On them were written all the words Jehovah spoke to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly. At the end of forty days and nights Jehovah gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.read more.
Jehovah said to me: 'Go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them. They have made a cast-idol for themselves.' Jehovah spoke further to me: 'I have seen this people. They are a very stubborn people. Leave me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.' So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire. I carried the two stone tablets of the covenant in my two hands. I saw that you had indeed sinned against Jehovah your God. You made yourselves an idol, cast in the shape of a calf. You turned aside quickly from the way Jehovah had commanded you. I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes. I fell down before Jehovah. Like the first, forty days and nights I did not eat or drink. This was because of all your sin you committed in doing what was evil in the sight of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger.

God's Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. There he was tested (tempted) by the Devil. He fasted forty days and nights, and was very hungry.

Satan tempted Jesus. This lasted forty days. The angels took care of Jesus.

Jesus was full of God's Holy Spirit when he returned from the Jordan. Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness. He spent forty days in the wilderness being tempted by the devil. He did not eat anything during those days so when it was over he was hungry.

Forty days later they returned from exploring the land.

Each morning and evening for forty days the Philistine came forward and made his challenge.

So he got up and took food and drink. He was strengthened to go for forty days and forty nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.

He presented himself alive to them after his suffering. He gave many convincing proofs. He appeared to them during forty days speaking about the kingdom of God.

You explored the land for forty days. So for forty years, one year for each day, you will suffer for your sins and know what it means for me to be against you.'

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.

The children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of Jehovah. Jehovah swore that he would not show them the land, which he swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

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.

Your forefathers examined (inspected) (scrutinized) me by proving (testing) me. And they saw my works for forty years. I was disgusted (angry) with this generation, and said: 'They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.' So I swore in my anger: 'They will not enter into my rest.'read more.
Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you develop a wicked heart lacking faith and turning away (departing) from the living God. Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become companions (partners) with Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of our firm trust to the end. Scripture says: Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. Do not be stubborn like those who rebelled. Who were they who heard God and rebelled? All who came out of Egypt with Moses rebelled. With whom was he disgusted for forty years? He was disgusted and angry with those who sinned and died in the desert.

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.

Remember how Jehovah your God blessed you in everything you have done. He took care of you as you wandered through this vast desert. He has been with you these forty years. You had everything you needed.'

Remember the forty years Jehovah your God led you in the wilderness. He did this in order to humble you and test you. He wanted to know what was in your heart. Whether you would obey his commandments. He humbled you (allowed you to suffer) with hunger and then fed you with manna. Neither you nor your fathers had seen this before. He did this to teach you that a person cannot live on bread alone but must live on all (everything) (every word) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah. Your clothes did not wear out! And your feet did not swell these past forty years.

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.

Truly, for forty years you were their support in the wilderness. They needed nothing. Their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

I brought you out of the land of Egypt. I led you forty years in the desert wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

He brought them out. He showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

He cared for them and endured their bad conduct in the wilderness for forty years.

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they talked to Pharaoh.

Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers the children of Israel. Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged the oppressed one by killing the Egyptian. He supposed his brothers would understand how God by his hand would deliver them but they did not understand.read more.
The next day he appeared to them while they were fighting. He wanted to unite them and said, 'You are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?' The one who was treating his neighbor unjustly pushed him away, saying: 'Who made you our ruler and judge? Will you kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?' When he heard this talk Moses fled and became a stranger in the land of Median, where he became father to two sons. At the end of forty years, Jehovah's angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai in a flame of fire in a bush. (Exodus 3:3)

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

May all your enemies die like that, Jehovah, may your friends shine like the rising sun! There was peace in the land for forty years.

Midian was defeated by the Israelites and was no longer a threat. The land was at peace for forty years, until Gideon died.

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.

David was thirty years old when he became king. He ruled for forty years.

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

for forty years. He ruled in Hebron for seven years and in Jerusalem for thirty-three.

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

Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.

Jehoash became king of Judah. It was the seventh year of Jehu's rule over Israel. Jehoash ruled for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

Joash began to rule when he was seven years old. He ruled for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.

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