Library Home>E.C. Pressland>The Numerals Of Scripture>Eighty (#124652)

Eighty

From: The Numerals Of Scripture By: Edward C. Pressland

Listen to This Article

Eighty as a double 40 suggests (like 14 and 24) the repeated value of 40, so confirming it. Thus, Jehu put 80 men on guard outside the house of Baal (2 Kings 10:24²⁴And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him. (2 Kings 10:24)).

Psa. 90:10¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psalm 90:10), "if by reason of strength they be eighty years." 2 Chron. 26:17¹⁷And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the Lord, that were valiant men: (2 Chronicles 26:17). Azariah took 80 priests to withstand King Uzziah. Jer. 41:5⁵That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord. (Jeremiah 41:5). Eighty men came with offerings to the house of Jehovah. 2 Sam. 19:35³⁵I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? (2 Samuel 19:35). Barzillai was 80 this day.

2 Kings 6:25²⁵And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. (2 Kings 6:25). An ass' head sold for 80 pieces of silver.

Luke 2:37³⁷And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. (Luke 2:37). Anna was a widow of about 84.

Click here to show subject links in the text for more information.

Previous Article

The Numerals Of Scripture

• Number Three

• Number Four

• Number Five

• Number Seven

• Number Eight

• Number Nine

• Number Eleven

• Number Twelve

• Higher Numbers

• Twenty-Four

• Twenty-Five

• Twenty-Seven

• Twenty-Eight

• Twenty-Nine

• Forty-Eight

• Seventy-Seven

• Eighty

• One Hundred

• One Hundred Forty-Four