Amos 2:10

10 More than that, I brought you up from Egypt, led you forty years in the desert, so that you could have the Emori's land.

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 lying down beside any altar on clothes taken in pledge; drinking wine in the house of their God bought with fines they imposed.
9 "I destroyed the Emori before them; though tall as cedars and strong as oaks, I destroyed their fruit above and their root below.
10 More than that, I brought you up from Egypt, led you forty years in the desert, so that you could have the Emori's land.
11 I raised up some of your sons to be prophets, other young men of yours to be n'zirim. People of Isra'el! Isn't that true?" asks ADONAI.
12 But you gave the n'zirim wine to drink and ordered the prophets, 'Don't prophesy!'
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