"40 IN BIBLE"

I. 40 DAYS
Before David defeated Goliath,
"Each day Goliath would come out and shout a challenge to the Israelites... So choose one man and send him to fight me." All the Israelities were scared of Goliath!
I Samuel 17:16
And the Philistine drew near and presented himself forty days, morning and evening.

Numbers 13:2‭, ‬23‭, ‬25 NKJV

Before entering into Caanan the Promised land, God said to Moses.
"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.....” Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

II. 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS
Mathew 4:2
Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 Nights.

Genesis 7:4
"For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.

Exodus 34:28
So he (Moses) was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

I Kings 19:7,8
And the angel of the Lord came back the second time, and touched him (Elijah), and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.” So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.

III. 40 YEARS
I Kings 2:11
The period that David reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years
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I Kings 11:42
And the period that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

Joshua 5:6
"For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness".

Let us follow the commandments and commit our ways to the Lord for greater things to happen in our life.Believe and your faith on Christ will make things Happen!!!

Stay Blessed!!!

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