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Forty Years of Probation by Trial:

Israel in the wilderness, Deuteronomy 8:2–5; Psalm 95:10; Acts 13:18.

(A third of Moses’ life, 120 years is 40).

Israel from the crucifixion to the destruction of Jerusalem.

Forty Years of Probation by Prosperity in Deliverance and Rest:

under Othniel, Judges 3:11,

under Barak, Judges 5:31, under Gideon, Judges 8:28.

Forty Years of Probation by Prosperity in Enlarged Dominion:

under David, 2 Samuel 5:4,

under Solomon, 1 Kings 11:42,

under Jeroboam II. See 2 Kings 12:17–18; 13:3, 5, 7, 22, 25; 14:12–14, 23, 28,

under Jehoash, 2 Kings 12:1,

under Joash, 2 Chronicles 24:1.

Forty Years of Probation by Humiliation and Servitude:

Israel under the Philistines, Judges 13:1.

Israel in the time of Eli, 1 Samuel 4:18.

Israel under Saul, Acts 13:21.

Forty Years of Probation by Waiting:

Moses in Egypt, Acts 7:23.

Moses in Midian, Acts 7:30

Forty Days

Forty days Moses was on the mount, Exodus 24:18; and to receive the Law, Exodus 24:18.

Forty days Moses was on the mount after the sin of the Golden Calf, Deuteronomy 9:18, 25.

Forty days of the spies, issuing in the penal sentence of the 40 years, Numbers 13:26; 14:34.

Forty days of Elijah in Horeb, 1 Kings 19:8.

Forty days of Jonah and Nineveh, Jonah 3:4.

Forty days Ezekiel lay on his right side to symbolize the 40 years of Judah’s transgression.

Forty days Jesus was tempted of the Devil, Matthew 4:2.

Forty days Jesus was seen of His disciples, speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God, Acts

Ethelbert W. Bullinger, Number in Scripture (Redding, CA: Pleasant Places Press, 2004), 266–267.

Lent is 40 Days before Easter.

Pregnancy is typically counted as 40 weeks from the first day of the last menstrual period .

Noah’s Flood lasted for 40 days and 40 nights (Genesis 7:12). This period marked the initial deluge, during which the “fountains of the great deep” and the “windows of heaven” were opened (Genesis 7:11).

Forty is the number of chapters of the book of the Exodus of the Old Testament.

Forty days after his birth, Jesus was presented to the Temple of Jerusalem for his legal purification, according to the established law.

There were 40 days of fast of Jesus in the desert. (Mt 4:2)

Forty days separate the Ascension of Jesus after his Resurrection. (Act 1:3)

The Flood of Noah lasted 40 days. (Gn 7:4)

Elijah walked 40 days and 40 nights before to reach the Horeb mount. He fasted during 40 days before to begin his public ministry and he remained 40 days on the Carmel mount. (1 Kings 19:8)

The priest Eli was judge of Israel for 40 years.

Moses was 40 years old when he was called by God and when he killed an Egyptian, and escaped in the desert of Midian. He kept the herd of Jethro during 40 years.

He resided finally 40 days and 40 nights to the summit of the mount Sinai before to receive the Tables of the Law. (Ex 24:18)

During 40 days Goliath defied David.

The children of Israel lived during 40 years in constraint with the Philistines. (Jg 13 : 1)

The Hebrews wandered 40 years in the desert. (Nb 32:13)

The reign of Joash lasted 40 years in Jerusalem. (2 Ch 24:1)

The people of Nineveh had to repent during 40 days. (Jon 3:4)

Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebekah. (Gn 25:20)

The embalming of Jacob was prolonged during 40 days. (Gn 50:3)

The reign of David on Israel lasted 40 years, just as the reign of Solomon in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel supported the iniquity of the house of Juda during 40 days.

Ezekiel’s 40-day symbolic act was a dramatic prophetic gesture meant to represent 40 years of Judah’s iniquity. As recorded in Ezekiel 4:6, God instructed the prophet to:

“Lie again on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, a day for each year.”

There were 40 emissaries of Canaan.

There was 40 years of repentance of Adam after his corrupt practice.

It is 40 years after the crucifixion of the Jesus Christ that Jerusalem was taken by the Romans and that the Temple was destroyed.

The Old Testament has 39 Books

Therefore the New Testament starts at the 40th.