Psalm 95:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Forty

Hebrews 3:9

And they

General references

Psalm 78:17

Bible References

Forty

Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.

So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the Lord was destroyed.

In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the Lord had commanded him to give to them,

Now the time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war perished from within the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,

And saw My works for

forty years.

And they

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

“Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the Lord.

This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,

General references

Yet they still continued to sin against Him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.