Acts 13:18
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Acts 13:18 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Acts 13:18 is a verse from the book of Acts in the New Testament. The KJV reads: "And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. suffered...: or bore, or fed them as a nu..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Acts 13:18 — KJV
“And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. suffered...: or bore, or fed them as a nurse beareth, or feedeth, her child”
— Acts 13:18 (KJV)
Acts 13:18 in Context — About the Book of Acts
Acts is volume two of Luke's history: the Spirit falls at Pentecost and a praying church turns the world upside down in one generation. Prison doors open, the gospel jumps every cultural wall, and every advance begins in a prayer meeting. It is the blueprint for Spirit-filled boldness.
Cross-References for Acts 13:18
“And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. wander: or, feed”
Shares key themes with Acts 13:18: forty, years, wilderness
“For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.”
Shares key themes with Acts 13:18: forty, years, wilderness
“And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. wandered: Heb. walked”
Shares key themes with Acts 13:18: forty, years, wilderness
“And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.”
Shares key themes with Acts 13:18: wilderness, fed, child
“But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. harnessed: or, by five in a rank”
Shares key themes with Acts 13:18: about, wilderness, child
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