Amos 2:10

10 It was I who brought you from the land of Egypt and led you for forty years through the desert so I could give you the land of the Amorites.

Amos 2:10 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 2:10

Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt
Where they were bond slaves, and in great affliction and distress, and unable to help themselves; but the Lord wrought deliverance for them, and brought them out of this house of bondage with a high hand and a mighty arm: and led you forty years through the wilderness:
going before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; providing them with all things necessary, with food and raiment, and protecting them from all their enemies: to possess the land of the Amorite;
the whole land of Canaan, so called from a principal nation of it.

Amos 2:10 In-Context

8 As they worship at their altars, they lie down on clothes taken from the poor. They fine people, and with that money they buy wine to drink in the house of their god.

9 "But it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them, who were tall like cedar trees and as strong as oaks -- I destroyed them completely.

10 It was I who brought you from the land of Egypt and led you for forty years through the desert so I could give you the land of the Amorites.

11 I made some of your children to be prophets and some of your young people to be Nazirites. People of Israel, isn't this true?" says the Lord.

12 "But you made the Nazirites drink wine and told the prophets not to prophesy.