Amos 2:10

New American Bible - revised edition

It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and who led you through the desert for forty years, to occupy the land of the Amorites;

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:21

Forty years in the desert you sustained them: they did not want; Their garments did not become worn, and their feet did not swell.

Psalm 95:10

Forty years I loathed that generation; I said: “This people’s heart goes astray; they do not know my ways.”

Exodus 12:51

On that same day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt company by company.

Exodus 20:2

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Exodus 3:8

Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them up from that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not ask, “Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, through a land of wastes and ravines, A land of drought and darkness, a land which no one crosses, where no one dwells?”

Ezekiel 20:10

Therefore I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word, Israelites, that the Lord speaks concerning you, concerning the whole family I brought up from the land of Egypt:

Amos 9:7

Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O Israelites?—oracle of the Lord— Did I not bring the Israelites from the land of Egypt as I brought the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

Micah 6:4

I brought you up from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery I ransomed you; And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Numbers 13:32

They spread discouraging reports among the Israelites about the land they had reconnoitered, saying, “The land that we went through and reconnoitered is a land that consumes its inhabitants. And all the people we saw there are huge.

Numbers 21:25

Israel seized all the towns here, and Israel settled in all the towns of the Amorites, in Heshbon and all its dependencies.

Numbers 32:13

So the anger of the Lord flared up against the Israelites and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord had disappeared.

Acts 13:18

and for about forty years he put up with them in the desert.

Acts 7:42

Then God turned and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Deuteronomy 1:39

Your little ones, who you said would become plunder, and your children, who as yet do not know good from evil—they shall enter there; to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it.

Deuteronomy 2:7

Surely, the Lord, your God, has blessed you in all your undertakings; he has been concerned about your journey through this vast wilderness. It is now forty years that the Lord, your God, has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.

Joshua 13:4

also where the Avvim are in the south; all the land of the Canaanites from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, and the boundaries of the Amorites;

Joshua 24:8

I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your power. You took possession of their land, and I destroyed them at your approach.