Quotes about Forty
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
— 2 Chronicles 9:30
No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.
— Ezekiel 29:11
In the four corners of the outer court there were enclosed courts, each forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. Each of the four corner areas had the same dimensions.
— Ezekiel 46:22
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
— Amos 5:25
On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
— Jonah 3:4
where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
— Luke 4:2
When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
— Acts 7:23
where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
— Hebrews 3:9
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
— Hebrews 3:17
The priests told the people that whoever brought fagots to burn heretics would have an indulgence to commit sins for forty days.
— John Foxe
The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.
— Rick Warren
And he [Moses] was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
— Anonymous