Amos 2:10

Also, I brought you up out of the land of Egypt 1 and led you forty years in the wilderness 1 to possess the land of the Amorites. 1

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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, 1 whose height was like the height of cedars; 1 he was strong as the oaks. 1 Yet I destroyed his fruit above 1 and his roots below. 1

11I raised up prophets from among your sons 1 and Nazirites from your young men. 1 Is it not so, 1 people of Israel? 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8I have come down to free them from the Egyptians' power and to bring them up from that land to a good, large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 20:2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Numbers 14:31But your little ones who you said would be victims, I will take them into the land. They will experience the land that you have rejected!

Deuteronomy 1:20I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God is giving to us.

Deuteronomy 2:7For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness. For these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.”'

Joshua 24:8I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You took possession of their land, and 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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