Amos 2:10
What does Amos 2:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Amos 2:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And I--I have brought you up from the land of Egypt, And cause you to go in a wilderness forty years, To possess the land of the Amorite.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
Context
v.9Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
v.10This passage
v.11And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 3:8
and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 20:2
I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Amos 9:7
Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
- Acts 7:42
But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Numbers 14:31
But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
- Micah 6:4
For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
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