New King James Version
Amos 2:10
10Also 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.
Amos 2:10 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)I brought you up out of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
- New Living Translation (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.
Context of Amos 2:10
8They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge, And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. 9“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was as strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit above And his roots beneath. 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. 11I raised up some of your sons as prophets, And some of your young men as Nazirites. Is it not so, O you children of Israel?” Says the Lord. 12“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets saying, ‘Do not prophesy!’
Read all of Amos 2Amos 2:10 word by word
וְאָנֹכִ֛י הֶעֱלֵ֥יתִי אֶתְכֶ֖ם מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם וָאוֹלֵ֨ךְ אֶתְכֶ֤ם בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה לָרֶ֖שֶׁת אֶת־אֶ֥רֶץ הָאֱמֹרִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Also I brought you upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: establishH5927
- from the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
- of Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714
- and ledיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
- you fortyאַרְבָּעִים'arbâ‛îym · fortyH705
- yearsשָׁנָהshâneh shânâh · yearH8141
- through the wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057
- to possessיָרַשׁyârash yârêsh · to possess: takeH3423
- of the Amoriteאֱמֹרִי'ĕmôrîy · AmoriteH567
Cross-references for Amos 2:10
- Exodus 12:51And it came to pass, on that very same day, that the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.
- Nehemiah 9:8You found his heart faithful before You, And made a covenant with him To give the land of the Canaanites, The Hittites, the Amorites, The Perizzites, the Jebusites, And the Girgashites— To give it to his descendants. You have performed Your words, For You are righteous.
- Psalms 105:42For He remembered His holy promise, And Abraham His servant.
- Psalms 136:10To Him who struck Egypt in their firstborn, For His mercy endures forever;
- Jeremiah 32:20You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, to this day, and in Israel and among other men; and You have made Yourself a name, as it is this day.
- Ezekiel 20:10“Therefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
- Micah 6:4For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I redeemed you from the house of bondage; And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
- Numbers 14:34According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.
- Deuteronomy 2:7“For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’
- Deuteronomy 8:2And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
- Nehemiah 9:21Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; They lacked nothing; Their clothes did not wear out And their feet did not swell.
- Psalms 95:10For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’
- Acts 7:42Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: ‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Acts 13:18Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:31But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.
- Deuteronomy 1:20And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.
Commentaries on Amos 2:10
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-16Verses 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 to them in the means of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-16Israel: Amos listed the sins of Israel's neighbors, then revealed his main point: The Israelites would face the same consequences (similar to Nathan's use of prophetic speech to prompt self-judgment, 2 Samuel 12:1–13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. brought you up from ... Egypt--"brought up" is the phrase, as Egypt was low and flat, and Canaan hilly. to possess the land of the Amorite--The Amorites strictly occupied both sides of the Jordan and the mountains afterward possessed by Judah; but they here, as in Am 2:9, stand for all the Canaanites. God kept Israel forty years in the wilderness, which tended to discipline them in His statutes, so as to be the better fitted for entering on the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Amos 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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