Acts 13:18
16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until 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 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.
Read in contextNumbers 14:22
Because 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;
Read in contextExodus 16:2
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
Read in contextNumbers 14:33–34
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:21–24
And 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:7
Remember, 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.
Read in contextExodus 16:35
And 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.
Read in contextAmos 5:25–26
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Read in context