Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

General references

Bible References

Forty

Genesis 7:4
For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”
Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Deuteronomy 10:10
I, moreover, stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time, and the Lord listened to me that time also; the Lord was not willing to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.

General references

Genesis 7:17
Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
Job 36:28
Which the clouds pour down,
They drip upon man abundantly.