1 Samuel 17:16

New Living Translation

For forty days, every morning and evening, the Philistine champion strutted in front of the Israelite army.

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For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.

where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry.

but David went back and forth so he could help his father with the sheep in Bethlehem.

One day Jesse said to David, “Take this basket of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and carry them quickly to your brothers.