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 on that very day the LORD brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

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

to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures forever;

You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day.

So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

And led

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'

For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."'

And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways."

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: "'Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

To possess

But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.

And I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.

General references

for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed.