The significance of numbers in the Bible[Number “Four” – 4]

The significance of numbers in the Bible 

Number “Four” – 4

• We have the “Four” cardinal directions, north, south, east and west.
• “Four” seasons of the year, spring, summer, autumn and winter.
• Substance is divided into “Four” parts 1, 1/ 2, 1/3, 1/4

• Revelation 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the “Four” quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

• Mark 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the “Four” winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

•  Revelation 9:15 And the “Four” angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

•  Genesis 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into “Four” heads.

• Revelation 6:8  “Four” horses .

• Zechariah 6:1  And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came “Four” chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

• Zechariah 1:18  Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold “Four” horns.

• Zechariah 1:20  And the LORD shewed me “Four” carpenters.

• Revelation 4:6  And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were “Four” beasts full of eyes before and behind.

• John 11:39  Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead “Four” days.

• John 19:23  Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made “Four” parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

• Mark 2:3  And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of “Four”.

• Acts 27:29  Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast “Four” anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

• Zechariah 6:5  And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the “Four” spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.

• Jacob had “Four” wives

•  Amos 2:1  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for “Four”, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
• Amos 2:4  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for “Four”, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

• Amos 2:6  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for “Four”, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

•  Amos 1:13  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for “Four”, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

• Amos 1:11  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for “Four”, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

• Amos 1:3  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for “Four”, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

• Amos 1:6  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for “Four”, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

• Amos 1:9  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for “Four”, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

• Daniel 7:3  And “Four” Great Beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

• Ezekiel 1:6  And every one had “Four” faces, and every one had “Four” wings.

• Proverbs 30:15  The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, “Four” things say not, It is enough:
• Proverbs 30:18  There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, “Four” which I know not:
• Proverbs 30:21  For three things the earth is disquieted, and for “Four” which it cannot bear:
• Proverbs 30:24  There be “Four” things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
• Proverbs 30:29  There be three things which go well, yea, “Four” are comely in going:

• Nehemiah 6:4  Yet they sent unto me “Four” times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

• Exodus 8: 25, 28;  10: 11, 24 “Four” compromises offered by Pharaoh

• 2 Kings 7:3  And there were “Four” leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

• 1 Kings 18:33  And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill “Four” barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.

• Exodus 36:36  And he made thereunto “Four” pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them “Four” sockets of silver.

• Exodus 37:3  And he cast for it “Four” rings of gold, to be set by the “Four” corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.

• Exodus 37:13  And he cast for it “Four” rings of gold, and put the rings upon the “Four” corners that were in the “Four” feet thereof.

• Exodus 37:20  And in the candlestick were “Four” bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:

• Exodus 38:19  And their pillars were “Four”, and their sockets of brass “Four”; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.

• Genesis 33:1  And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him “Four” hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

• Exodus 22:1  If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and “Four” sheep for a sheep.

• Luke 19:8  And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him “Four”fold.

• 2 Sam 12: 5, 6  And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: And he shall restore the lamb “Four”fold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

• 2 Samuel 21:22  These “Four” were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

• Jeremiah 15:3  And I will appoint over them “Four” kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

• Ezekiel 14:21  For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my “Four” sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

• Ezekiel 40:41  “Four” tables were on this side, and “Four” tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.

•  The “Four” Gospels:
•  Matthew
•  Mark
•  Luke
•  John

• Genesis 15:16  But in the “Four”th generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

• Exodus 20:5  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and “Four”th generation of them that hate me;

• Exodus 34:7  Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the “Four”th generation.

• 2 Kings 15:12  This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the “Four”th generation. And so it came to pass.

• I Samuel 3: 8,9  “Four” times the Lord called Samuel:
• And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child. Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.