Acts 13:18

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

Cross-references · 18

• Acts 7:36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
• Num 14:33–34Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
• Ps 106:13–29They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
• Num 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
• Ezek 20:10–17So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
• Heb 3:16–19For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?
• Deut 1:31and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
• Deut 9:7Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
• Deut 9:21–24I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
• Neh 9:16–21“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
• Acts 7:39–43to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
• Amos 5:25–26“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
• Ps 78:17–42Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
• Ps 95:8–11Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
• Heb 3:7–10Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
• Exod 16:2The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
• Exod 16:35The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
• 1 Cor 10:1–10Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

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