Amos 2:10

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 direct, by the change from the 1st to the 2nd person. Comp. the same motive, Deuteronomy 6:12; Hosea 13:4 (R.V. marg.), and elsewhere.

forty years Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 8:2; Deuteronomy 29:5 (in nearly the same phrase) &c.