Verse 8

So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 34:28 : 28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
  • Exod 3:1 : 1 Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.
  • Matt 4:2 : 2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
  • Deut 9:18 : 18 Then I again fell down before the LORD for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the LORD as to enrage him.
  • Exod 24:18 : 18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  • Mark 1:13 : 13 He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.
  • Luke 4:2 : 2 where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.
  • 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 But he said to me,“My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may reside in me.
  • Exod 19:18 : 18 Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
  • Deut 9:9-9 : 9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. 10 The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly. 11 Now at the end of the forty days and nights the LORD presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
  • Dan 1:15 : 15 At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies.
  • Mal 4:4-5 : 4 Restoration through the Lord“Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey. 5 Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD arrives.