So the land had rest for forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

They chose new gods; Then there was war in the gates; Not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

“Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord! But let those who love Him be like the sun When it comes out in full strength.” So the land had rest for forty years.

Thus Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted their heads no more. And the country was quiet for forty years in the days of Gideon.

then they would say to him, “Then say, ‘Shibboleth’!” And he would say, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they would take him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites.

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy young donkeys. He judged Israel eight years.

The Birth of Samson

Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.