Amos 9:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel? says the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

Cross References

2 Kings 16:9

The king of Assyria listened to him; the king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir; then he killed Rezin.

2 Chronicles 14:12

So the Lord defeated the Cushites before Asa and before Judah, and the Cushites fled.

2 Chronicles 14:9

Zerah the Cushite came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots and came as far as Mareshah.

Exodus 12:51

That very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, company by company.

Isaiah 20:4

so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as captives and the Cushites as exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 22:6

Elam bore the quiver with chariots and cavalry, and Kir uncovered the shield.

Isaiah 43:3

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Cushites change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Jeremiah 47:4

because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the Lord is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.

Amos 1:5

I will break the gate bars of Damascus and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden, and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir, says the Lord.

Amos 2:10

Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

Deuteronomy 2:23

As for the Avvim, who had lived in settlements in the vicinity of Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)