Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

Thirty

Bible References

Thirty

Luke 3:23
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,

Forty

1 Chronicles 26:31
As for the Hebronites, Jerijah the chief (these Hebronites were investigated according to their genealogies and fathers’ households, in the fortieth year of David’s reign, and men of outstanding capability were found among them at Jazer of Gilead)
1 Chronicles 29:27
The period which he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.