9 Bible Verses about Forty Years
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Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
The LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries." "'For thus says the Lord GOD: "At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;
Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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Israel » Under the judges » Led » Eli » Forty years
It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Forty years
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."
Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Punon » Israelite camp » Forty years » Wondering
They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon. They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.