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Acts 13:18

And he was patient with them for 40 years in the desert.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Antioch;   Law;   Minister, Christian;   Paul;   Preaching;   Synagogue;   Zeal, Religious;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Missions, World-Wide;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Galatians, letter to the;   Gospel;   Mission;   Paul;   Timothy;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Time;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Patience of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gospels;   Pisidia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Preaching in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bible;   Canon of the New Testament;   Galatians, Epistle to the;   Messiah;   Paul the Apostle;   Preaching;   Stephen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Desert, Wilderness;   Galatia ;   Galatians Epistle to the;   Inspiration and Revelation;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Numbers as Symbols;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Iconium;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Antioch;   Synagogue;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Manner;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 14;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness;
King James Version (1611)
And about the time of fourtie yeeres suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.
King James Version
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
English Standard Version
And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
New American Standard Bible
"For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.
New Century Version
And he was patient with them for forty years in the desert.
Amplified Bible
"For a period of about forty years He put up with their behavior in the wilderness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.
Legacy Standard Bible
And for a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.
Berean Standard Bible
He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
Contemporary English Version
and for about forty years he took care of them in the desert.
Complete Jewish Bible
For some forty years he took care of them in the desert,
Darby Translation
and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And about the time of fourtie yeeres, suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.
George Lamsa Translation
And he fed them in the wilderness for forty years.
Good News Translation
and for forty years he endured them in the desert.
Lexham English Bible
And for a period of time of about forty years, he put up with them in the wilderness.
Literal Translation
And as forty years time passed , He tenderly bore them in the wilderness. Deut. 1:31
American Standard Version
And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.
Bible in Basic English
And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.
Hebrew Names Version
For about the time of forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
International Standard Version
After he had put up withnourished
">[fn] them for forty years in the wilderness,Exodus 16:35; Numbers 14:33-34; Psalm 95:9-10; Acts 7:36;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And he nourished them in the desert forty years.
Murdock Translation
And he fed them in the wilderness forty years.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And about the tyme of fourtie yeres, suffred he their maners in the wyldernesse.
English Revised Version
And for about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
World English Bible
For about the time of forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he suffered their manners in the wilderness, about the space of forty years.
Weymouth's New Testament
For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and bi the tyme of fourti yeeris he suffride her maneres in desert.
Update Bible Version
And for about the time of forty years as a foster-father he bore them in the wilderness.
Webster's Bible Translation
And about the time of forty years he suffered their manners in the wilderness.
New English Translation
For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
New King James Version
Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.
New Living Translation
He put up with them through forty years of wandering in the wilderness.
New Life Bible
For about forty years He took care of them in the desert.
New Revised Standard
For about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, for the time of about forty years, bare with their manners in the desert;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:
Revised Standard Version
And for about forty years he bore with them in the wilderness.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and aboute the tyme of .xl. yeares suffred he their maners in the wyldernes.
Young's Literal Translation
and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And by the space of fortye yeares suffred he their maners in the wyldernesse,
Mace New Testament (1729)
for forty years he maintain'd them in the wilderness.
Simplified Cowboy Version
he was with 'em during the forty years in the wilderness after he set 'em free.

Contextual Overview

14 They continued their trip from Perga and went to Antioch, a city near Pisidia. On the Sabbath day they went into the Jewish synagogue and sat down. 15 The Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets were read. Then the leaders of the synagogue sent a message to Paul and Barnabas: "Brothers, if you have something to say that will help the people here, please speak." 16 Paul stood up, raised his hand to get their attention, and said, "People of Israel and all you others who worship the true God, please listen to me! 17 The God of Israel chose our ancestors. And during the time our people lived in Egypt as foreigners, he made them great. Then he brought them out of that country with great power. 18 And he was patient with them for 40 years in the desert. 19 God destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan and gave their land to his people. 20 All this happened in about 450 years. "After this, God gave our people judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. 21 Then the people asked for a king. God gave them Saul, the son of Kish. Saul was from the tribe of Benjamin. He was king for 40 years. 22 After God took Saul away, God made David their king. This is what God said about David: ‘David, the son of Jesse, is the kind of person who does what pleases me. He will do everything I want him to do.' 23 "As he promised, God has brought one of David's descendants to Israel to be their Savior. That descendant is Jesus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

about: Acts 7:36, Acts 7:39-43, Exodus 16:2, Exodus 16:35, Numbers 14:22, Numbers 14:33, Numbers 14:34, Deuteronomy 9:7, Deuteronomy 9:21-24, Nehemiah 9:16-21, Psalms 78:17-42, Psalms 95:8-11, Psalms 106:13-29, Ezekiel 20:10-17, Amos 5:25, Amos 5:26, 1 Corinthians 10:1-10, Hebrews 3:7-10, Hebrews 3:16-19

suffered: "Gr. ופסןנןצןסחוןם [Strong's G5159], perhaps for ופסןצןצןסחףום, bore, or fed them as a nurse beareth or feedeth her child, Deuteronomy 1:31; according to the LXX, and so Chrysostom."

Reciprocal: Joshua 24:7 - ye dwelt Nehemiah 9:21 - forty Ezekiel 20:21 - the children Hosea 11:3 - taught Amos 2:10 - and led Matthew 17:17 - how long shall I be Luke 9:41 - and suffer Acts 18:14 - bear 1 Thessalonians 2:7 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to honor the Lord . Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals and burned them on the altar as a gift to God.
Genesis 13:4
This was where Abram had built an altar earlier. So he worshiped the Lord there.
Genesis 13:7
(The Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in this land at the same time.) The shepherds of Abram and Lot began to argue.
Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me or between your people and my people. We are all brothers.
Genesis 14:13
One of the men who had escaped went to Abram the Hebrew and told him what happened. Abram was camped near the trees of Mamre the Amorite. Mamre, Eshcol, and Aner had made an agreement to help each other, and they had also signed an agreement to help Abram.
Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the oak trees of Mamre. It was the hottest part of the day, and Abraham was sitting at the door of his tent.
Genesis 23:2
She died in the city of Kiriath Arba (Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham was very sad and cried for her there.
Genesis 35:27
Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba (Hebron). This is where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
Genesis 37:14
His father said, "Go and see if your brothers are safe. Come back and tell me if my sheep are all fine." So Joseph's father sent him from the Valley of Hebron to Shechem.
Numbers 13:22
They entered the country through the Negev and went to Hebron. (The town of Hebron was built seven years before the town of Zoan in Egypt.) Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai lived there. These men were descendants of Anak.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And about the time of forty years,.... From their coming out of Egypt, to their entrance into the land of Canaan:

suffered he their manners in the wilderness; which were very perverse and provoking; as their murmuring for water, their rebellion against Moses and Aaron, their idolatry and the ill report brought on the good land by their spies; and yet the Lord fed them, and led them, and kept them as the apple of his eye: some think the true reading is ετροφοφορησεν, "he bore", or "fed them", as a nurse bears and feeds her children; and so the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions render it, "he nourished them"; rained manna, and gave them quails from heaven, and furnished a table for them in the wilderness: and indeed, though there were instances of God's patience and forbearance with them, yet certain it is, that as he was tempted and proved by them, so he was grieved with them during the forty years in the wilderness; and often let fall his vengeance upon them, by cutting off great numbers of them; and even the carcasses of all that generation that came out of Egypt fell in the wilderness; nor did any of them enter into the land of Cannan, but Joshua and Caleb.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And about the time of forty years - They were this time going from Egypt to the land of Canaan. Exodus 16:35; Numbers 33:38.

Suffered he their manners - This passage has been very variously rendered. See the margin. Syriac, “He nourished them,” etc. Arabic, “He blessed them, and nourished them,” etc. The Greek word is not elsewhere used in the New Testament. It properly means to tolerate, or endure the conduct of anyone, implying that that conduct is evil, and tends to provoke to punishment. This is doubtless its meaning here. Probably Paul referred to the passage in Deuteronomy 1:31, “The Lord thy God bare thee.” But instead of this word, ἐτροποφόρησεν etropophorēsen to bear with, many mss. read ἐτροφοφόρησεν etrofoforēsen), “he sustained or nourished.” This reading was followed by the Syriac, Arabic, and has been admitted by Griesbach into the text. This is also found in the Septuagint, in Deuteronomy 1:31, which place Paul doubtless referred to. This would well suit the connection of the passage; and a change of a single letter might easily have occurred in a ms. It adds to the probability that this is the true reading, that it accords with Deuteronomy 1:31; Numbers 11:12; Deuteronomy 32:10. It is furthermore not probable that Paul would have commenced a discourse by reminding them of the obstinacy and wickedness of the nation. Such a course would rather tend to exasperate than to conciliate; but by reminding them of the mercies of God to them, and showing them that He had been their protector, he was better fitting them for his main purpose - that of showing them the kindness of the God of their fathers in sending to them a Saviour.

In the wilderness - The desert through which they passed in going from Egypt to Canaan.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 13:18. About the time of forty years — The space of time between their coming out of Egypt, and going into the promised land.

Suffered he their manners — ετροποφορησεναυτους; He dealt indulgently with them: howsoever they behaved towards him, he mercifully bore with, and kindly treated them. But instead of ετροποφορησεν, ACE, some others, with the Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, AEthiopic, and some of the fathers, read ετροφοφορησεν, which signifies, he nourished and fed them, or bore them about in his arms as a tender nurse does her child. This reading confirms the marginal conjecture, and agrees excellently with the scope of the place, and is a reading at least of equal value with that in the commonly received text. Griesbach has admitted it, and excluded the other. Both, when rightly understood, speak nearly the same sense; but the latter is the most expressive, and agrees best with Paul's discourse, and the history to which he alludes. See the same form of expression, Numbers 11:12; Exodus 19:4; Isaiah 46:3-4; Isaiah 63:9.


 
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