Acts 13:18
And for about a forty-year time he was patient with them in the wilderness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
In Context
19And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he allotted their land to them.
Cross References
Exodus 16:35And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
Numbers 14:33And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 9:7Remember, do not thou forget how thou provoked LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou went forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came to this place, ye have been rebellious against LORD.
Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers dealt proudly and stiffened their neck, and did not hearken to thy commandments,
Psalms 95:8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, as the day of trial in the wilderness,
Ezekiel 20:10So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
Matthew Henry on Acts 13:15-42
Paul at Antioch in Pisidia. 14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. 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… Read the whole commentary →