Acts 13:18
and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,
Young's Literal Translation
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 did divide by lot to them their land.
Cross References
Exodus 16:35And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna forty years, until their coming in unto the land to be inhabited; the manna they have eaten till their coming in unto the extremity of the land of Canaan.
Numbers 14:33and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;
Deuteronomy 9:7'Remember — do not forget — that [with] which thou hast made Jehovah thy God wroth in the wilderness; even from the day that thou hast come out of the land of Egypt till your coming in unto this place rebels ye have been with Jehovah;
Nehemiah 9:16'And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,
Psalms 95:8Harden not your heart as [in] Meribah, As [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness,
Ezekiel 20:10And I bring them out of the land of Egypt, And I bring them in unto 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 →