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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.
Amos 2:10 · King James Version
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  • 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.
  • BSB 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.
  • 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 2:7For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
  • Exod 12:51And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
  • Acts 7:42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
  • Amos 3:1Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
  • Amos 9:7Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
  • Exod 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  • Acts 13:18And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
  • Mic 6:4For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
  • Ps 136:10–11To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:
  • Ps 95:10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
  • Deut 1:20–21And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
  • Ezek 20:10Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
  • Deut 1:39Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
  • Exod 20:2I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
  • Ps 105:42–43For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
  • Neh 9:21Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
  • Neh 9:8–12And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
  • Deut 8:2–4And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
  • Jer 32:20–21Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
  • Num 14:31–35But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Amos videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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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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