Acts 13:18
and lav davka (approximately) ARBA'IM SHANAH He put up with them in the desert. + 13:18 Dt 1:31; Num 14:33,34; Ps 95:10; Ex 16:35
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 16:35And the Bnei Yisroel did eat manna arba'im shanah, until they came to an eretz noshavet (an inhabited land); they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of Eretz Kena'an.
Numbers 14:33And your banim shall wander + 14:33 wandering ro'im in the midbar arba'im shanah, and bear + 14:33 the penalty of your whoredoms, + 14:33 zenut, spiritual disloyalty and rebellion until the last of your corpses lies in the midbar.
Deuteronomy 9:7Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst Hashem Eloheicha to wrath in the midbar; from the yom that thou didst depart out of Eretz Mitzrayim, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against Hashem.
Nehemiah 9:16But they and Avoteinu dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and paid heed not to Thy mitzvot,
Psalms 95:8Harden not your lev, as in Merivah, 1 and as in the Yom Massah in the midbar; 1
Ezekiel 20:10Therefore I caused them to go forth out of Eretz Mitzrayim, and brought them into the midbar.
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 →