Amos 9:7

Good News Translation

The Lord says, “People of Israel, I think as much of the people of Ethiopia as I do of you. I brought the Philistines from Crete and the Syrians from Kir, just as I brought you from Egypt.

Cross References

2 Kings 16:9

Tiglath Pileser, in answer to Ahaz' plea, marched out with his army against Damascus, captured it, killed King Rezin, and took the people to Kir as prisoners.

2 Chronicles 14:12

The Lord defeated the Ethiopian army when Asa and the Judean army attacked them. They fled,

2 Chronicles 14:9

An Ethiopian named Zerah invaded Judah with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots and advanced as far as Mareshah.

Exodus 12:51

On that day the Lord brought the Israelite tribes out of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:4

The emperor of Assyria will lead away naked the prisoners he captures from those two countries. Young and old, they will walk barefoot and naked, with their buttocks exposed, bringing shame on Egypt.

Isaiah 22:6

The soldiers from the land of Elam came riding on horseback, armed with bows and arrows. Soldiers from the land of Kir had their shields ready.

Isaiah 43:3

For I am the Lord your God, the holy God of Israel, who saves you. I will give up Egypt to set you free; I will give up Ethiopia and Seba.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can people change the color of their skin, or a leopard remove its spots? If they could, then you that do nothing but evil could learn to do what is right.

Jeremiah 47:4

The time has come to destroy Philistia, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon all the help that remains. I, the Lord, will destroy the Philistines, all who came from the shores of Crete.

Hosea 12:13

The Lord sent a prophet to rescue the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt and to take care of them.

Amos 1:5

I will smash the city gates of Damascus and remove the inhabitants of Aven Valley and the ruler of Betheden. The people of Syria will be taken away as prisoners to the land of Kir.”

Amos 2:10

I brought you out of Egypt, led you through the desert for forty years, and gave you the land of the Amorites to be your own.

Deuteronomy 2:23

The land along the Mediterranean coast had been settled by people from the island of Crete. They had destroyed the Avvim, the original inhabitants, and had taken over all their land as far south as the city of Gaza.)