16 Verses About Nights from 8 Books

1 Kings 19:8

He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.

1 Samuel 30:12

They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.

Deuteronomy 9:11

It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:18

I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9:25

So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 10:10

I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and the LORD listened to me that time also; the LORD would not destroy you.



Exodus 24:18

Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28

He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Genesis 7:4

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

Genesis 7:12

The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Job 2:13

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Job 7:3

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Jonah 1:17

the LORD prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.



Matthew 4:2

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.





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