"And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. {suffered...: or bore, or fed them as a n…" — Acts 13:18

Acts 13:18 · KJV

“And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. {suffered...: or bore, or fed them as a nurse beareth, or feedeth, her child}”

— Acts 13:18

Verse 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.

Verse 19

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

Acts 13 — Context

Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with {his} hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.

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. {suffered...: or bore, or fed them as a nurse beareth, or feedeth, her child}

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

And after that he gave {unto them} judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

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.

Psalms 78:17-42

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

Hebrews 3:7-10

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Amos 5:25-26

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Hebrews 3:16-19

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Psalms 95:8-11

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, {and} as {in} the day of temptation in the wilderness: {provocation: Heb. contention}

Deuteronomy 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.

Exodus 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.