Amos 2:10
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 in other translations
| 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. |
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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. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | 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. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | Also I brought you from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. |
What does Amos 2:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 2:9-16
We need often to be reminded of the mercies we have received; which add much to the evil of the sins we have committed. They had helps for their souls, which taught them how to make good use of their earthly enjoyments, and were therefore more valuable. Faithful ministers are great blessings to any people; but it is God that raises them up to be so. Sinners' own consciences will witness that he has not been wanting…
Amos 2:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Amos 2:10
- Deuteronomy 2:7
For 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.
- Exodus 12:51
And 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 7:42
Then 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 3:1
Hear 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,
- Acts 13:18
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
- Exodus 3:8
And 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.
- Amos 9:7
Are 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?
- Micah 6:4
For 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.
- Nehemiah 9:8-12
And 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: And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. …
- Psalms 105:42-43
For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
- Deuteronomy 1:20-21
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
- Deuteronomy 8:2-4
And 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. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
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- Amos 2:9
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
- Amos 2:10
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 2:11
And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.
Amos 2:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y yo os hice á vosotros subir de la tierra de Egipto, y os traje por el desierto cuarenta años, para que poseyeseis la tierra del Amorrheo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et moi, je vous ai fait monter du pays d’Égypte, et je vous ai fait marcher dans le désert 40 ans, pour posséder le pays de l’Amoréen. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und doch habe ich euch aus dem Lande Ägypten heraufgeführt und euch vierzig Jahre in der Wüste geleitet, damit ihr das Land des Amoriters in Besitz nähmet. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ego sum qui ascendere vos feci de terra Ægypti, et duxi vos in deserto quadraginta annis, ut possideretis terram Amorrhæi. |