Amos 9:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says the Lord. Have I not taken Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Aramaeans from Kir?

Cross References

2 Kings 16:9

And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

2 Chronicles 14:12

So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.

2 Chronicles 14:9

And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.

Exodus 12:51

And on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

Isaiah 20:4

So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 22:6

And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.

Isaiah 43:3

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.

Jeremiah 13:23

Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.

Jeremiah 47:4

Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor.

Hosea 12:13

And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.

Amos 1:5

And I will have the locks of the door of Damascus broken, and him who is seated in power cut off from the valley of Aven, and him in whose hand is the rod from the house of Eden; and the people of Aram will go away as prisoners into Kir, says the Lord.

Amos 2:10

And 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.

Deuteronomy 2:23

And the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as Gaza, came to destruction by the hands of the Caphtorim who came out from Caphtor and took their land.