Acts 13:18
16 Paul stood up, motioned with his hand, and began to speak: “Men of Israel and you Gentiles who fear God, listen to me!
17 The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.
He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
19 And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.
20 All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
- KJV
- And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
- WEB
- For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
- ASV
- And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.
- DARBY
- and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.
- BLB
- and for a period of about forty years He endured their ways in the wilderness,
- ÅB
- og omkring førti år bar han dem på faderarm i ørkenen,
- OTB
- I omtrent førti år sørget Han for dem i ørkenen.
- B1930
- og omkring firti år bar han dem på faderarm i ørkenen,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 7:36
He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
Read in contextNumbers 14:22
not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Read in contextExodus 16:2
And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
Read in contextNumbers 14:33–34
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:21–24
And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:7
Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
Read in contextExodus 16:35
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
Read in contextAmos 5:25–26
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Read in context