Deuteronomy 9:9

God's Word

When I went up on the mountain to get the stone tablets, the tablets of the promise that the Lord made to you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights without food or water.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:8

He got up, ate, and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled for 40 days and nights until he came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

2 Kings 6:22

Elisha answered, “Don’t kill them. Do you kill everyone you take captive in combat? Give them food and water. Let them eat and drink. Then let them go back to their master.”

Exodus 24:12

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain. Stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the teachings and the commandments I have written for the people’s instruction.”

Exodus 24:15

So Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered it.

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain. He stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.

Exodus 31:18

The Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai. Then he gave him the two tablets with his words on them, stone tablets inscribed by God himself.

Exodus 32:1

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron. They said to him, “We don’t know what has happened to this Moses, who led us out of Egypt. Make gods who will lead us.”

Exodus 34:28

Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights without food or water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the promise, the ten commandments.

Matthew 4:2

Jesus did not eat anything for 40 days and 40 nights. At the end of that time, he was hungry.

Galatians 4:24

I’m going to use these historical events as an illustration. The women illustrate two arrangements. The one woman, Hagar, is the arrangement made on Mount Sinai. Her children are born into slavery.

Deuteronomy 8:3

So he made you suffer from hunger and then fed you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had seen before. He did this to teach you that a person cannot live on bread alone but on every word that the Lord speaks.

Deuteronomy 9:11

At the end of the 40 days and 40 nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets with his promise on them.

Deuteronomy 9:15

So I turned and went down the mountain while it was still burning with fire. I was carrying the two tablets with the promise on them.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Once again I threw myself down in front of the Lord. I went without food and water for 40 days and 40 nights because of the sin you committed. You did what the Lord considered evil and made him furious.

Hebrews 9:4

It contained the gold incense burner and the ark of the Lord’s promise. The ark was completely covered with gold. In the ark were the gold jar filled with manna, Aaron’s staff that had blossomed, and the tablets on which the promise  was written.