Thematic Bible: Forty


Thematic Bible



So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

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.

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.

So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and nights, which I did because the Lord had said He would destroy you.


Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord;
But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.”
And the land was undisturbed for forty years.

Then the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

So Midian was subdued before the sons of Israel, and they did not lift up their heads anymore. And the land was undisturbed for forty years in the days of Gideon.


He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.



The sons 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.

According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition.


A man’s foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.


‘For thus says the Lord God, “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.


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.


When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,


Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”


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.


Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.


When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year.


Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;


To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.




He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.