Amos 2:10

Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

In Context

9Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

11And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye sons of Israel? says LORD.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the A

Exodus 20:2I am LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Numbers 14:31But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

Deuteronomy 1:20And I said to you, Ye have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which LORD our God gives to us.

Deuteronomy 2:7For LORD thy God has blessed thee in all the work of thy hand. He has known thy walking through this great wilderness. These forty years LORD thy God has been with thee; thou have lacked nothing.

Joshua 24:8And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan. And they fought with you. And I gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you.

Matthew Henry on Amos 2:10-16

God's Remonstrance with Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord . 12 But… Read the whole commentary →

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