From Nave’s Topical Bible
Forty
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 22Passages listed
- 11Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Remarkable coincidences in the number
- DAYS
- Of rain, at the time of the floodGenesis 7:17
- Of flood, before sending forth the ravenGenesis 8:6
- For embalmingGenesis 50:3
- Of fasting
- By MosesExodus 24:18Exodus 34:28Deuteronomy 9:9Deuteronomy 9:25
- By Elijah1 Kings 19:8
- By spies in the land of promiseNumbers 13:25
- Of probation, given to the NinevitesJonah 3:4
- By JesusMatthew 4:2
- Christ's stay after the resurrectionActs 1:3
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- SymbolicalEzekiel 4:6
- YEARS
- Wanderings of the Israelites in the wildernessExodus 16:35Numbers 14:34
- Peace in IsraelJudges 3:11Judges 5:31Judges 8:28
- Egypt to be desolatedEzekiel 29:11
- To be restored afterEzekiel 29:13
- STRIPES
- Administered in punishing criminalsDeuteronomy 25:32 Corinthians 11:24
The passages, in Bible order (22)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 7:17
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Commentary on Genesis 7:171 voice
And the waters increased and lifted the ark high above the earth, the waters increased greatly and filled everything on the surface of the earth. And the waters of baptism and faith, multiplied throughout the whole world, raise the Church from the desire for earthly …
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735Patristic
- Genesis 8:6
After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
Commentary on Genesis 8:61 voice
(Verse 6) After forty days, Noah opened the door of the ark which he had made, and released a raven, but it did not return to him until the waters had dried up from the earth. As for the dove, it is said differently: He released a raven, and it went out, going and coming back until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420Patristic
- Genesis 50:3
taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Commentary on Genesis 50:31 voice
Forty days were fulfilled for him,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 16:35
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
Commentary on Exodus 16:351 voice
Let us also see if we are able to find Quadragesima's mystical number somewhere else in the Scriptures. We read that holy Moses fed the children of Israel with heavenly manna in the desert for the space of forty years. Good is the number, then, …
Maximus of Turin· SERMON 50.3, 465Patristic
- Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Commentary on Exodus 24:181 voice
If, then, any one desires to see this Image of God, he must love God, that he may be loved by God; and be no longer a servant but a friend, because he has kept the commandments of God, that he may enter into the cloud where God is.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus 2.110, 397Patristic
- Exodus 34:28
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
Commentary on Exodus 34:281 voice
And like this holy man the blessed Moses also was twice deemed worthy to go unto the thick darkness and to receive the law upon the tablets; and he was made pure by fasting like unto this, and then he was deemed worthy of the …
Philoxenus of Mabbug· 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence, 523Patristic
- Numbers 13:25
After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
Commentary on Numbers 13:251 voice
And they returned from searching the land after forty days. The Targum of Jonathan adds, on the eighth day of the month Ab, which answers to part of July and part of August; so that this must be towards the latter end of July: some Jewish writers (k) say it was the ninth of Ab; hence the tradition, that it was decreed on the ninth of Ab concerning their fathers, that they should not enter into the land (l). (k) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 8. p. 24. (l) Misn. Taanith, c. 4. sect. 7.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Numbers 14:34
In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
Commentary on Numbers 14:341 voice
For my part I am afraid to examine the secrets of this mystery, for I see comprehended in it the calculation of sins and punishment. If each sinner is assigned punishment for the sin of one day and according to the number of days he …
Caesarius of Arles· SERMON 108.2, 542Patristic
- Deuteronomy 9:9
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.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:91 voice
Every form of nourishment is called "bread" in the Scriptures. This is clear from what is written concerning Moses: for forty days he neither ate "bread" nor drank water. The word that nourishes is multidimensional and varied. Not everyone can receive the solid and strong nourishment of God's teachings. Therefore, wishing to give an athlete's nourishment suitable to the more perfect, [Christ] says, "The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
Origen of Alexandria· ON PRAYER 27.4, 253Patristic
- Deuteronomy 9:25
So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:251 voice
Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first,.... Which Jarchi says are the selfsame said above, Deu 9:18, but doubled or repeated, because of the order of his prayer.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 25:3
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 25:31 voice
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 3:11
So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.
Commentary on Judges 3:111 voice
And the land had rest forty years,.... As it should seem from the time of this deliverance; though, according to Ben Gersom and Abarbinel, the eight years' servitude are to be included in them; and Bishop Usher (r) reckons these forty years from the rest first settled in the land by Joshua; but the former sense seems best: and Othniel the son of Kenaz died: not at the end of the forty years; it is not likely he should live so long, but when he died is not certain; Eusebius (s) says he judged Israel fifty years. (r) Anual. Vet.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 5:31
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.
Commentary on Judges 5:311 voice
So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord!....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 8:28
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,
Commentary on Judges 8:281 voice
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 19:8
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.
Commentary on 1 Kings 19:82 voices
And so also Elijah, after his fast of forty days and forty nights, received the sight of God in Mount Horeb, and he was alone in the wilderness, and in addition to the protracted fast he bore also the labour of the journey of the …
Philoxenus of Mabbug· 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence, 523Patristic
"The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him and said, 'Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.' " Elijah was sleeping under a tree. Now an angel came to him and woke him up (sleep was …
Ephrem the Syrian· ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 19:4, 373Patristic
- Ezekiel 4:6
When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.
Commentary on Ezekiel 4:62 voices
(Ver. 4 seqq.) And you shall lie on your left side, and you shall bear the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. And when you have completed these, you shall lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days.
Jerome· Commentary on Ezekiel, 420Patristic
And when thou hast accomplished them,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
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