Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
16 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “years” →
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
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.
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
And there he found a certain man named Æneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix’ room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
