Amo 9:7 | HCSB | STEP | Israelites , are you not like the Cushites to Me? This is the Lord ’s declaration . Didn’t I bring Israel from the land of Egypt , the Philistines from Caphtor , and the Arameans from Kir ?

Amos 9:7

Announcement of Judgment

7 Israelites, are you not like the ^{▼▼Cush/ Cushite: The lands of the Nile in southern Egypt, including Nubia and Northern Sudan; the people who lived in that region}Cushites to Me? ^b
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Didn’t I bring Israel from the land of Egypt,
the Philistines from Caphtor, ^{▼▼Probably Crete
,} ^d
and the Arameans from Kir? ^e