Amos 2:10 “And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in…”

Amos 2:10

And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Also I brought you vp from the land of Egypt, and led you fourtie yeres thorowe the wildernesse, to possesse the land of the Amorite.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And I — I have brought you up from the land of Egypt, And cause you to go in a wilderness forty years, To possess the land of the Amorite.

Bible in Basic English

And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.

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Cross references

“I bought”

Exodus 12:51 Micah 6:4 Nehemiah 9:8–12 Ezekiel 20:10 Psalm 105:42 Psalm 105:43

Exodus 12:51 · BSB

And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.

Micah 6:4 · BSB

For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.

Nehemiah 9:8–12 · BSB

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You…

Ezekiel 20:10 · BSB

So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.

Psalm 105:42 · BSB

For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

Psalm 105:43 · BSB

He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.

“and led”

Deuteronomy 2:7 Acts 7:42 Acts 13:18 Deuteronomy 8:2–4 Nehemiah 9:21 Psalm 95:10

Deuteronomy 2:7 · BSB

Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.

Acts 7:42 · BSB

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Is…

Acts 13:18 · BSB

He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 8:2–4 · BSB

Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

Nehemiah 9:21 · BSB

For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

Psalm 95:10 · BSB

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

“to possess”

Numbers 14:31–35 Deuteronomy 1:39 Deuteronomy 1:20 Deuteronomy 1:21

Numbers 14:31–35 · BSB

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

Deuteronomy 1:39 · BSB

And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

Deuteronomy 1:20 · BSB

I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.

Deuteronomy 1:21 · BSB

See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”

Also

Amos 3:1 Exodus 3:8 Amos 9:7 Exodus 20:2

Amos 3:1 · BSB

Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

Exodus 3:8 · BSB

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzi…

Amos 9:7 · BSB

“Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?

Exodus 20:2 · BSB

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

11I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.

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