'Years' in the Bible
Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.
And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak;
A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,
Immediately the girl got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old. And immediately they were completely astounded.
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in years.
Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years.”
And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,
When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli,
But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;
for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.
And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone,
And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’
And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?’
And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.
And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?”
But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;
The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush.
This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years, for he was paralyzed.
For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.
When He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land as an inheritance—all of which took about four hundred and fifty years.
Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
This took place for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.
Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.
When the governor had nodded for him to speak, Paul responded:“Knowing that for many years you have been a judge to this nation, I cheerfully make my defense,
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings;
But after two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and wishing to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul imprisoned.
And he stayed two full years in his own rented quarters and was welcoming all who came to him,
Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;
but now, with no further place for me in these regions, and since I have had for many years a longing to come to you
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven.
Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days.
Then after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.
What I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.
You observe days and months and seasons and years.
A widow is to be put on the list only if she is not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
And like a mantle You will roll them up;Like a garment they will also be changed.But You are the same,And Your years will not come to an end.”
Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,And saw My works for forty years.
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.
Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.
Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison,
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