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(A)“And yet, my people, it was for your sake that I totally destroyed the Amorites, who were as tall as cedar trees and as strong as oaks. 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. 11 (B)I chose some of your sons to be prophets and some of your young men to be nazirites.[a] Isn't this true, people of Israel? I, the Lord, have spoken.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 2:11 Israelites who showed their devotion to God by taking vows not to drink wine or beer or cut their hair or touch corpses (see Nu 6.1-8).

“Yet I destroyed the Amorites(A) before them,
    though they were tall(B) as the cedars
    and strong as the oaks.(C)
I destroyed their fruit above
    and their roots(D) below.
10 I brought you up out of Egypt(E)
    and led(F) you forty years in the wilderness(G)
    to give you the land of the Amorites.(H)

11 “I also raised up prophets(I) from among your children
    and Nazirites(J) from among your youths.
Is this not true, people of Israel?”
declares the Lord.

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