Amos 2:10

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“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.”

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BSBPD

“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 · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“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 · Public Domain
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“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.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Amos 2:10 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 3:8I 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, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  2. Exodus 12:51And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.
  3. Exodus 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  4. Numbers 13:32So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
  5. Numbers 14:31But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
  6. Numbers 32:13The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
  7. Deuteronomy 1:20I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
  8. Deuteronomy 1:39And 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.
  9. Deuteronomy 2:7Indeed, 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.
  10. Deuteronomy 8:2Remember 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.
  11. Joshua 24:8Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.
  12. Nehemiah 9:8You 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 have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
  13. Nehemiah 9:21For 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.
  14. Psalms 95:10For 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.”
  15. Psalms 105:42For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
  16. Psalms 136:10He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.
  17. Jeremiah 2:6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
  18. Jeremiah 32:20You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.
  19. Ezekiel 20:10So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.
  20. Amos 3:1Hear 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:
  21. Amos 9:7“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?
  22. Micah 6:4For 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.
  23. Acts 7:42But 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 Israel?
  24. Acts 13:18He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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