Acts 13:18

For about forty years God bore with Israel in the wilderness. His patience persisted through their rebellion.

Cross-references · 18

• Acts 7:36He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
• Num 14:33–34And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
• Ps 106:13–29They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
• Num 14:22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
• Ezek 20:10–17Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
• Heb 3:16–19For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
• Deut 1:31And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
• Deut 9:7Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
• Deut 9:21–24And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
• Neh 9:16–21But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
• Acts 7:39–43To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
• Amos 5:25–26Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
• Ps 78:17–42And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
• Ps 95:8–11Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
• Heb 3:7–10Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
• Exod 16:2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
• Exod 16:35And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
• 1 Cor 10:1–10Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

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