Amos 2:10

Also I brought you up from Eretz Mitzrayim, 1 and led you arba'im shanah through the midbar, 1 to possess the Eretz HaEmori (land of the Amorite). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 destroyed I HaEmori before them, 1 whose height was like the height of the cedars, 1 and he was strong as the oaks; 1 yet I destroyed his p'ri from above, 1 and his shorashim from beneath. 1

11And I raised up of your banim for nevi'im, 1 and of your bochurim for Nezirim. 1 Is it not even thus, O ye Bnei Yisroel? 1 saith Hashem. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the yad Mitzrayim, and to bring them up out of that land unto an eretz tovah, a spacious eretz zavat cholov udevash; unto the place of the Kena'ani, and the Chitti, and the Emori, and the Perizzi, and the Chivi, and the Yevusi.

Exodus 20:2I am Hashem Eloheicha, Who brought thee out of Eretz Mitzrayim, out of the bais avadim (house of slaves).

Numbers 14:31But your little ones, which ye said would be plunder, them will I bring in, and they shall know HaAretz which ye have rejected.

Deuteronomy 1:20And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the Har HaEmori which Hashem Eloheinu doth give unto us.

Deuteronomy 2:7For Hashem Eloheicha hath bestowed a brocha on thee in all the works of thy hand; He knoweth thy walking through this midbar hagadol (great wilderness); these arba'im shanim Hashem Eloheicha hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

Joshua 24:8And I brought you into the Eretz HaEmori, the ones dwelling on the other side of the Yarden; they fought against you; I gave them into your yad, that ye might possess their land; 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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