Quotes about Years
Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.
- 1 Samuel 13:1
Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons in the days of Saul. And Jesse was old and well along in years.
- 1 Samuel 17:12
And the length of time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
- 2 Samuel 2:11
In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
- 2 Samuel 5:5
After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.
- 2 Samuel 13:38
Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.
- 2 Samuel 14:28
But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
- 2 Samuel 19:34
During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
- 2 Samuel 21:1
The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 2:11
Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
- 1 Kings 7:1
Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
- 1 Kings 9:10
Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
- 1 Kings 11:42