Numbers 14:34
14:34 According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for
your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
Deuteronomy 2:7
2:7 All along the way I, the
Lord your God,
have blessed your every effort.
I have
been attentive to
your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have
been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”
Deuteronomy 8:2-4
8:2 Remember the whole way by which he
has brought you these forty years through the desert
so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
8:3 So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna.
He did this to teach you
that humankind
cannot live by bread
alone, but also by everything that comes from the
Lord’s mouth.
8:4 Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.
Nehemiah 9:21
9:21 For forty years you sustained them. Even in the desert they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Psalms 95:10
95:10 For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation,
and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray;
they do not obey my commands.’
Acts 7:42
7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over
to worship the host
of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘
It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?
Acts 13:18
13:18 For
a period of about forty years he put up with
them in the wilderness.