9 Bible Verses about The Number Forty

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil. And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry.

and he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the beasts; and the angels waited on him.

AND Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, being tempted by the devil forty days. And he eat nothing in those days; and when they were completed he was hungry.

to whom also he presented himself living after his suffering, by many proofs, being seen by them during forty days, and speaking things relating to the kingdom of God.

where your fathers fully proved and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was displeased with that generation and said, They always err in mind, and they did not know my ways, so I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.read more.
See, brothers, that there be not at any time in any one of you an evil mind of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called to-day, that no one of you may be hardened by the deception of sin; for we have been made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of the confidence firm to the end. It was said, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation; for who having heard committed provocation? Did not all indeed who came out of Egypt with Moses? And with whom was he displeased forty years? Was it not with those that sinned? whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

This man brought them out, having performed prodigies and miracles in Egypt, and at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

And when he had borne with their conduct forty years in the wilderness,

And when he was forty years old, it came into his mind to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. And seeing one injured he defended him, and executed judgment for the oppressed, smiting the Egyptian. And he thought his brothers would understand that God would give them salvation by his hand; but they understood not.read more.
On the following day also he showed himself to them as they contended, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers; why do you injure one another? But he that injured his neighbor repelled him, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Will you kill me as you did the Egyptian, yesterday? And Moses fled at that saying, and lived a stranger in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons. And forty years being completed there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush.

And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years;