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1 | What's the significance of the number 40 | Gen 7:4 | Skippy | 227882 | ||
The number 40 is used/referenced numerous times. What is the significance of that number? | ||||||
2 | What's the significance of the number 40 | Gen 7:4 | biblicalman | 227883 | ||
The number 40 indicates a period of judgment. The rains and the overflowing seas were to last 40 days and forty nights at the Flood (Genesis 7.4,12,17). Noah waited forty days for the flood to subside before sending out the raven (Genesis 8.6). Israel would be left in the wildernss for forty years (Numbers 14.33; Deuteronomy 2.7). Forty stripes was a standard maximum punishment (Deuteronomy 25.3) Goliath challenged Israel for forty days (1 Sam 17.16). Jonah declared that Nineveh would be destroyed in forty days (Jonah 2.4). Forty days and forty nights is a period of consulting God (Moses - Exodus 24.18; Jesus - Matthew 4.2). God strengthened Elijah for forty days and forty night as he journeyed to Horeb to meet with God(1 Kings 19.8). Thus forty indicates a period when God deals with men |
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