אַרְבָּעִים

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

About 40,000 troops armed for battle crossed over before the LORD into the plains of Jericho.

For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.

Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,

For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.

So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.

In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,

…they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening to take his stand.

Saul’s son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.

But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.

After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.

The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

…and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”

Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked—forty-two men. He spared none of them.

In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash over Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria forty-one years.

The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors—valiant men who carried the shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for battle.

From Asher: 40,000 fit for service, prepared for battle.

But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach the commander of their army.

As for the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of the Hebronites, according to the genealogies of his ancestors. In the fortieth year of David’s reign the records were searched, and strong, capable men were found among the Hebronites at Jazer in Gilead.

The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.