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Amos 2:10
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through the prophet Amos to the northern kingdom of Israel during a judicial indictment of their covenant violations. He interrupts his list of national sins to remind them of his prior deliverance and provision.
The words — The verb הֶעֱלֵ֥יתִי (he.'e.Lei.ti) literally means "I brought up," describing God's act of extraction from Egypt. The verb וָ/אוֹלֵ֨ךְ (va./'o.Lekh) means "and I led," indicating the sustained guidance through the wilderness.
The thread — This deliverance motif appears in Exodus 12:51, which records the exact day of the Exodus, and Deuteronomy 2:7, which recalls God's blessing during the wilderness journey. Amos 3:1 reiterates the same covenantal foundation by addressing Israel as the family God brought up out of Egypt.
Why it lands — The text states that God's extraction and forty-year guidance were instrumental, specifically so Israel could take possession of the Amorite land. The passage demands acknowledgment that national inheritance and survival depend entirely on prior divine action, not human merit.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 2:7 Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
- Exodus 12:51 And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.
- Amos 3:1 Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
- Acts 7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Amos 9:7 “Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?
- Micah 6:4 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.
- Acts 13:18 He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
- Exodus 20:2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Numbers 14:31 But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.