LXX Concordance for ἔτη

Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Methuselah was 187 years old when he fathered Lamech.

Lamech lived 595 years after he fathered Noah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

And the LORD said, “My Spirit will not remain[fn] with[fn] mankind forever, because they are corrupt.[fn] Their days will be 120 years.”

Now Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

Terah lived 205 years and died in Haran.

They were subject to Chedorlaomer for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens for four hundred years in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.[fn]

So Abram's wife, Sarai, took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband, Abram, as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan ten years.

This is the length[fn] of Ishmael's life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.

Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, “I'll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

“Complete this week of wedding celebration, and we will also give you this younger one in return for working yet another seven years for me.”

Jacob slept with Rachel also, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

“I've been with you these twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock.

“For twenty years in your household I served you ​— ​fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks ​— ​and you have changed my wages ten times!

At the end of two years Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,

“Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt.

“The food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine that will take place in the land of Egypt. Then the country will not be wiped out by the famine.”

Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On, bore them to him.

“For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

“There I will sustain you, for there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you, your household, and everything you have will become destitute.” '

Now Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years, and his life span was 147 years.

Joseph and his father's family remained in Egypt. Joseph lived 110 years.

Amram married his father's sister Jochebed,

and she bore him Aaron and Moses.

Amram lived 137 years.

The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt[fn] was 430 years.

The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

“When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man[fn] without paying anything.

“Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.

“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden.[fn] It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

“You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.

“You are to count seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amounts to forty-nine.

“I will appoint my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

“he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.

“If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he will calculate and pay the price of his redemption in proportion to his remaining years.

“But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your assessment will be reduced.

“Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness.

“The LORD's anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until the whole generation that had done what was evil in the LORD's sight was gone.

“For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these past forty years, and you have lacked nothing.'

“Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years.

“At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and store it within your city gates.

“If your fellow Hebrew, a man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, you must set him free in the seventh year.

“Do not regard it as a hardship[fn] when you set him free, because he worked for you six years ​— ​worth twice the wages of a hired worker. Then the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

“I led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes and the sandals on your feet did not wear out;

Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of debt cancellation, during the Festival of Shelters,

Remember the days of old;

consider the years of past generations.

Ask your father, and he will tell you,

your elders, and they will teach you.

For the Israelites wandered in the wilderness forty years until all the nation's men of war who came out of Egypt had died off because they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land he had sworn to their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah,[fn] which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

The LORD's anger burned against Israel, and he sold them to King Cushan-rishathaim[fn] of Aram-naharaim,[fn] and the Israelites served him eight years.

Then the land had peace for forty years, and Othniel son of Kenaz died.

The Israelites served King Eglon of Moab eighteen years.

Moab became subject to Israel that day, and the land had peace for eighty years.

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he harshly oppressed them twenty years.

LORD, may all your enemies perish as Sisera did.[fn]

But may those who love him

be like the rising of the sun in its strength.

And the land had peace for forty years.

The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD handed them over to Midian seven years,

So Midian was subdued before the Israelites, and they were no longer a threat. The land had peace for forty years during the days of Gideon.

When Abimelech had ruled over Israel three years,

Tola judged Israel twenty-three years and when he died, was buried in Shamir.

They shattered and crushed the Israelites that year, and for eighteen years they did the same to all the Israelites who were on the other side of the Jordan in the land of the Amorites in Gilead.

“While Israel lived three hundred years in Heshbon and Aroer and their surrounding villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, why didn't you take them back at that time?

Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.[fn]

and had thirty sons. He gave his thirty daughters in marriage to men outside the tribe and brought back thirty wives for his sons from outside the tribe. Ibzan judged Israel seven years,

Elon, who was from Zebulun, judged Israel after Ibzan. He judged Israel ten years,

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

The Israelites again did what was evil in the LORD's sight, so the LORD handed them over to the Philistines forty years.

And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Then his brothers and his father's whole family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. So he judged Israel twenty years.

Her sons took Moabite women as their wives: one was named Orpah and the second was named Ruth. After they lived in Moab about ten years,

He guards the steps[fn] of his faithful ones,

but the wicked perish in darkness,

for a person does not prevail by his own strength.

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate, and since he was old and heavy, his neck broke and he died. Eli had judged Israel forty years.

Time went by until twenty years had passed since the ark had been taken to Kiriath-jearim. Then the whole house of Israel longed for the LORD.

Saul's son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he became king over Israel; he reigned for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.

David was thirty years old when he began his reign; he reigned forty years.

After Absalom had fled to Geshur and had been there three years,

Absalom resided in Jerusalem two years but never saw the king.

During David's reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David inquired[fn] of the LORD. The LORD answered, “It is due to Saul and to his bloody family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

So Gad went to David, told him the choices, and asked him, “Do you want three[fn] years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land three days? Now, consider carefully[fn] what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.”

The length of time David reigned over Israel was forty years: he reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

Shimei said to the king, “The sentence is fair; your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.

So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the temple's construction.

At that time Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the tribal heads and the ancestral leaders of the Israelites before him at Jerusalem in order to bring the ark of the LORD's covenant from the city of David, that is Zion.

At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the two houses, the LORD's temple and the royal palace ​— ​

The length of Solomon's reign in Jerusalem over all Israel totaled forty years.

Now Rehoboam, Solomon's son, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put his name. Rehoboam's mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.

and he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah daughter[fn] of Abishalom.

Nadab son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Judah's King Asa; he reigned over Israel two years.

In the third year of Judah's King Asa, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.

In the twenty-sixth year of Judah's King Asa, Elah son of Baasha became king over Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah two years.

In the thirty-first year of Judah's King Asa, Omri became king over Israel, and he reigned twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah,

Omri rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab became king in his place.

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers,[fn] said to Ahab, “As the LORD God of Israel lives, in whose presence I stand, there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command! ”

There was a lull of three years without war between Aram and Israel.

Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king; he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Judah's King Jehoshaphat, and he reigned over Israel two years.

The rest of the events of Ahaziah's reign, along with his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel's Kings.[fn]

Joram son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria during the eighteenth year of Judah's King Jehoshaphat, and he reigned twelve years.

Elisha said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Get ready, you and your household, and go live as a resident alien wherever you can. For the LORD has announced a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”

He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

The length of Jehu's reign over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

Joash was in hiding with her in the LORD's temple six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beer-sheba.

In the twenty-third year of Judah's King Joash son of Ahaziah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.

In the thirty-seventh year of Judah's King Joash, Jehoash son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan;[fn] she was from Jerusalem.

Judah's King Amaziah son of Joash lived fifteen years after the death of Israel's King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz.

He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

In the thirty-ninth year of Judah's King Azariah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Samaria.

In the fiftieth year of Judah's King Azariah, Pekahiah son of Menahem became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years.

In the fifty-second year of Judah's King Azariah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God like his ancestor David

In the twelfth year of Judah's King Ahaz, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years.

The king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi[fn] daughter of Zechariah.

“I will add fifteen years to your life. I will rescue you and this city from the grasp of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.' ”

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.

During Jehoiakim's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, and then he turned and rebelled against him.

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

Six sons were born to David in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-three years.

“three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes with the sword of your enemy overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD ​— ​a plague on the land, the angel of the LORD bringing destruction to the whole territory of Israel.' Now decide what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.”

The length of his reign over Israel was forty years; he reigned in Hebron for seven years and in Jerusalem for thirty-three.

At the end of twenty years during which Solomon had built the LORD's temple and his own palace ​— ​

Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked in the ways of David and Solomon for three years.

King Rehoboam established his royal power in Jerusalem. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put his name. Rehoboam's mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.

and he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micaiah[fn] daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah.

There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Abijah rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place. During his reign the land experienced peace for ten years.

Jehoshaphat became king over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. He died to no one's regret[fn] and was buried in the city of David but not in the tombs of the kings.

He was hiding with them in God's temple for six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beer-sheba.

Amaziah became king when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

Judah's King Amaziah son of Joash lived fifteen years after the death of Israel's King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz.

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the LORD's sight like his ancestor David,

Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abijah[fn] daughter of Zechariah.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

This is the reply they gave us:

We are the servants of the God of the heavens and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah ​— ​from the twentieth year until his thirty-second year, twelve years ​— ​I and my associates never ate from the food allotted to the governor.

You provided for them in the wilderness forty years,

and they lacked nothing.

Their clothes did not wear out,

and their feet did not swell.

You were patient with them for many years,

and your Spirit warned them through your prophets,

but they would not listen.

Therefore, you handed them over to the surrounding peoples.

If they listen and serve him,

they will end their days in prosperity

and their years in happiness.

Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

I consider days of old,

years long past.

For forty years I was disgusted with that generation;

I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;

they do not know my ways.”

I say, “My God, do not take me

in the middle of my life![fn]

Your years continue through all generations.

for they will bring you

many days, a full life,[fn] and well-being.

Long life[fn] is in her right hand;

in her left, riches and honor.

The uncultivated field of the poor yields abundant food,

but without justice, it is swept away.

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives,[fn] if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Indeed, if someone lives many years,

let him rejoice in them all,

and let him remember the days of darkness, since they will be many.

All that comes is futile.

the LORD said, “As my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,

On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years ​— ​the life span of one king. At the end of seventy years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre:

And at the end of the seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre and she will go back into business, prostituting herself with all the kingdoms of the world throughout the earth.

“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add fifteen years to your life.[fn]

I said: In the prime[fn] of my life

I must go to the gates of Sheol;

I am deprived of the rest of my years.

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until this very day ​— ​twenty-three years ​— ​the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you time and time again,[fn] but you have not obeyed.

“This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

“Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the LORD's temple that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took from here and transported to Babylon.

For this is what the LORD says: “When seventy years for Babylon are complete, I will attend to you and will confirm my promise concerning you to restore you to this place.

“‘At the end of seven years, each of you must let his fellow Hebrew who sold himself[fn] to you go. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free from your service.' But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention.

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it. It will be uninhabited for forty years.

“ ‘Then the inhabitants of Israel's cities will go out, kindle fires, and burn the weapons ​— ​the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them to make fires.

The king assigned them daily provisions from the royal food and from the wine that he drank. They were to be trained for three years, and at the end of that time they were to attend the king.[fn]

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the LORD to the prophet Jeremiah that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be seventy.

“After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to seal the agreement. She will not retain power, and his strength will not endure. She will be given up, together with her entourage, her father,[fn] and the one who supported her during those times.

And I brought you from the land of Egypt

and led you forty years in the wilderness

in order to possess the land of the Amorite.

“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?

LORD, I have heard the report about you;

LORD, I stand in awe of your deeds.

Revive your work in these years;

make it known in these years.

In your wrath remember mercy!

by asking the priests who were at the house of the LORD of Armies as well as the prophets, “Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years? ”

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

And the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD as in days of old and years gone by.

So Lamech's life lasted 777 years; then he died.

So Noah's life lasted 950 years; then he died.

Now Sarah lived 127 years; these were all the years of her life.

This is the length of Abraham's life:[fn] 175 years.

This is the length[fn] of Ishmael's life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.

Isaac lived 180 years.

“The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years. The dreams mean the same thing.

“After them, seven years of famine will take place, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will devastate the land.

Then the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,

Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived? ”

These are the names of the sons of Levi

according to their family records;

Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Levi lived 137 years.

The sons of Kohath:

Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

Kohath lived 133 years.

Amram married his father's sister Jochebed,

and she bore him Aaron and Moses.

Amram lived 137 years.

“You are to count seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amounts to forty-nine.

“The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was thirty-eight years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

“Are your days like those of a human,

or your years like those of a man,

A wicked person writhes in pain all his days,

throughout the number of years reserved for the ruthless.

For only a few years will pass

before I go the way of no return.

Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief

and my years with groaning;

my strength has failed

because of my iniquity,[fn]

and my bones waste away.

Add days to the king's life;

may his years span many generations.

He made their days end in futility,

their years in sudden disaster.

For in your sight a thousand years

are like yesterday that passes by,

like a few hours of the night.

For all our days ebb away under your wrath;

we end our years like a sigh.

“But you are the same,

and your years will never end.

Listen, my son. Accept my words,

and you will live many years.

“For by me your days will be many,

and years will be added to your life.

But he doesn't know that the departed spirits are there,

that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

The fear of the LORD prolongs life,[fn]

but the years of the wicked are cut short.

So remember your Creator in the days of your youth:

Before the days of adversity come,

and the years approach when you will say,

“I have no delight in them”;