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“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.
Amos 2:10 · New American Standard Bible
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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.
  • Exod 12:51That same day, Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
  • Acts 7:42But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
  • Amos 3:1Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
  • Amos 9:7Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
  • Exod 3:8I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
  • Acts 13:18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
  • Mic 6:4For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
  • Ps 136:10–11To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever;
  • Ps 95:10Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
  • Deut 1:20–21I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.
  • Ezek 20:10So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
  • Deut 1:39Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be captured or killed, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
  • Exod 20:2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
  • Ps 105:42–43For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
  • Neh 9:21“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
  • Neh 9:8–12found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
  • Deut 8:2–4You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Jer 32:20–21who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made yourself a name, as it is today;
  • Num 14:31–35But your little ones, that you said should be captured or killed, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

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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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