Fondare 624 Risultati per: Forty Years In The Wilderness
There was famine during the reign of David for three consecutive years and David consulted Yahweh. The answer was, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and his family because he put the Gibeonites to death." (2 Samuel 21, 1)
So Gad went to David and asked him, "Do you want three years of famine in your land? Or do you want to be pursued for three months by your foes while you flee from them? Or do you want three days' pestilence in your land? Now, think and decide what answer I shall give him who sent me." (2 Samuel 24, 13)
David reigned over Israel for forty years: seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. (1 Kings 2, 11)
Three years later, two of Shimei's slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacha, king of Gath. When it was reported to Shimei that his slaves were in Gath, (1 Kings 2, 39)
Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. (1 Kings 4, 26)
The front of the house, that is the Sanctuary, was forty cubits long. (1 Kings 6, 17)
In the month of Bul, the eighth month of the eleventh year, the House was finished, complete and according to all specifications. It took Solomon seven years to build it. (1 Kings 6, 38)
Solomon took thirteen years to build his own palace. (1 Kings 7, 1)
It had a cedar ceiling above the beams that were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row. (1 Kings 7, 3)
Hiram also made ten brazen basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits. There was a basin for each of the ten stands. (1 Kings 7, 38)
During these twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses - Yahweh's House and the royal house - (1 Kings 9, 10)
The king had a fleet of Tarshish ships at sea with Hiram's fleet, and once every three years the fleet of Tarshish ships would bring gold, silver, ivory, apes and peacocks. (1 Kings 10, 22)
