Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. Ezekiel 24:16
Trivia: In Ezekiel 4, what did God tell Ezekiel to bake his bread with?
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than a few weeks.
The children of Israel did eat manna forty years. Exodus 16:35
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years. Numbers 14:33
He made them wander in the wilderness forty years. Numbers 32:13
Walking through this great wilderness: these forty years. Deuteronomy 2:7
Remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years. Deuteronomy 8:2
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Deuteronomy 29:5
The children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness. Joshua 5:6
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. Nehemiah 9:21
I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness. Amos 2:10
Google maps says the journey from the Giza Plateau to Jerusalem is 742 kilometers and would take 152 hours to walk. (About 19 days with 8 hours of walking each day.)
