Amos 2:10

It was I who brought you out of the land of Egypt and led you through the desert for forty years so that you could take the Amorites' land.

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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 it was I who was the one who destroyed the Amorites before you, even though they were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. I destroyed them root and branch.

11I appointed some of your sons to be prophets, and some of your young men to be Nazirites. Isn't this true, people of Israel?

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8That's why I have come down to rescue them from Egyptian oppression and to take them up from that country to a productive, wide-open land—a land flowing with milk and honey—where currently the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites are living.

Exodus 20:2“I am the Lord your God, who led you out of Egypt, out of the land of your slavery.

Numbers 14:31However, I will take your children—those you said would be taken away as plunder—into the country you rejected, and they will appreciate it.

Deuteronomy 1:20I explained to you, “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving to us.

Deuteronomy 2:7Remember that the Lord your God has blessed you in everything you've done. He has looked after you during your journey through this large desert. The Lord your God has been with you for these forty years, and you haven't lacked anything.

Joshua 24:8After that I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought against you but I handed them over to you to defeat and you took over their land. I destroyed them 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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