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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.
Amos 2:10 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB 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.
  • KJV 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.
  • NKJV Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you forty years through the wilderness, To possess the land of the Amorite.
  • NASB “And it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you in the wilderness for forty years So that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.
  • NLT It was I who rescued you from Egypt and led you through the desert for forty years, so you could possess the land of the Amorites.

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Quick answer

God recounts bringing Israel out of Egypt and leading them forty years to give them the land. Their entire existence rests on God's redeeming grace.

Overview

The exodus and wilderness guidance are the foundational acts of God's covenant love toward Israel. He redeemed them from slavery and provided for them so they could possess the land. This history of grace makes their rebellion all the more grievous. The exodus also foreshadows the greater redemption accomplished by Christ, who delivers his people from the bondage of sin.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Deut 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.
  • Exod 12:51And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.
  • 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?
  • 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:
  • 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?
  • Exod 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.
  • Acts 13:18He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
  • Mic 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.
  • Ps 136:10–11He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.
  • Ps 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.”
  • Deut 1:20–21I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
  • Ezek 20:10So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.
  • Deut 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.
  • Exod 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  • Ps 105:42–43For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
  • Neh 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.
  • Neh 9:8–12You 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.
  • Deut 8:2–4Remember 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.
  • Jer 32:20–21You 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.
  • Num 14:31–35But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

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Christ at the center

Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.

How Amos 2:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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