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Amos 2:10

Amos 2:10
Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Also I - (Literally, “And I,” I, emphatic; thus and thus did ye to Me; and thus and thus, with all the mercy from the first, did I to you,) I brought you up from the land of Egypt It is this language…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Amos 2:9-16

Here, I. God puts his people Israel in mind of the great things he has done for them, in putting them into possession of the land of Canaan, the greatest part of which these ten tribes now enjoyed,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Also I brought you up, &c. as before, "And I(emph.)" &c. The providential guidance in the wilderness is instanced as a further motive to obedience, the appeal to it being made the more forcible and…