Hechos 13:18

18 Y por tiempo como de cuarenta años soportó sus costumbres en el desierto

Hechos 13:18 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 13:18

And about the time of forty years
From their coming out of Egypt, to their entrance into the land of Canaan:

suffered he their manners in the wilderness;
which were very perverse and provoking; as their murmuring for water, their rebellion against Moses and Aaron, their idolatry and the ill report brought on the good land by their spies; and yet the Lord fed them, and led them, and kept them as the apple of his eye: some think the true reading is (etrofoforhsen) , "he bore", or "fed them", as a nurse bears and feeds her children; and so the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions render it, "he nourished them"; rained manna, and gave them quails from heaven, and furnished a table for them in the wilderness: and indeed, though there were instances of God's patience and forbearance with them, yet certain it is, that as he was tempted and proved by them, so he was grieved with them during the forty years in the wilderness; and often let fall his vengeance upon them, by cutting off great numbers of them; and even the carcasses of all that generation that came out of Egypt fell in the wilderness; nor did any of them enter into the land of Cannan, but Joshua and Caleb.

Hechos 13:18 In-Context

16 Entonces Pablo, levantándose, hecha señal de silencio con la mano, dice: Varones israelitas, y los que teméis a Dios, oíd

17 El Dios de este pueblo de Israel escogió a nuestros padres, y ensalzó al pueblo, siendo ellos extranjeros en la tierra de Egipto, y con brazo levantado los sacó de ella

18 Y por tiempo como de cuarenta años soportó sus costumbres en el desierto

19 y destruyendo las siete naciones en la tierra de Canaán, les repartió por suerte la tierra de ellas

20 Y después, como por cuatrocientos cincuenta años, les dio jueces hasta el profeta Samuel