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 that same day that the LORD did bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

and didst find his heart faithful before thee and didst make 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 seed and hast performed thy word; for thou art righteous.

For he remembered his holy word with Abraham his slave.

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

who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and in the man, and hast made thee a name, as at this day;

Therefore I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness;

For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt and ransomed thee out of the house of slaves; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

And led

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

For the LORD thy God has blessed thee in all the works of thy hand; he knows thy walking through this great wilderness; these forty years the LORD thy God has been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

And thou shalt remember all the way by which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness to afflict thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

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

Forty years long I was grieved with this generation and said, It is a people that err from the heart, who have not known my ways;

Then God withdrew and gave them up to worship the host of the 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 for the time of about forty years, he suffered their manners in the wilderness.

To possess

But your little ones, whom ye said should be a prey, I will bring them in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

Then I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorite, which the LORD our God gives unto us.

General references

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