And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.(Acts 13:15)

Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.(Acts 13:16)

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.(Acts 13:17)

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.(Acts 13:19)

And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.(Acts 13:20)

And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.(Acts 13:21)

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Acts 13:18 - Cross Reference

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, (Nehemiah 9:16)

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: (Exodus 16:2)

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: (Psalm 95:8)

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. (Deuteronomy 1:31)

They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: (Psalm 106:13)

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; (1 Corinthians 10:1)

He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. (Acts 7:36)

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. (Psalm 78:17)

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, (Hebrews 3:7)

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. (Numbers 14:33)

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? (Amos 5:25)

Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; (Numbers 14:22)

And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. (Exodus 16:35)

To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, (Acts 7:39)

Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. (Deuteronomy 9:7)

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. (Hebrews 3:16)

And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. (Deuteronomy 9:21)

Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. (Ezekiel 20:10)