Amos 2:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

I brought

Micah 6:4

And led

Acts 13:18

To possess

Numbers 14:31

Deuteronomy 1:20

General references

Joshua 24:17

Bible References

I brought

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.

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:

For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Which 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;

Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

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.

And led

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

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.

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.

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

Forty 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:

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?

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

To possess

But 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.

And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

General references

For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: