Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Bible References

All died

Genesis 25:8
And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, old and full of days; and was gathered to his peoples.
Genesis 27:2
And he said, Behold now, I am become old; I know not the day of my death.
Genesis 48:21
And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Genesis 49:18
I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said to his brethren, I die; and God will certainly visit you, and bring you up out of this land, into the land that he swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Not

Hebrews 11:39
And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did not receive the promise,

But

Hebrews 11:27
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he persevered, as seeing him who is invisible.
Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be the obedience of peoples.
Numbers 24:17
I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not nigh: There cometh a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and he shall cut in pieces the corners of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.
Job 19:25
And as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
John 8:56
Your father Abraham exulted in that he should see my day, and he saw and rejoiced.
John 12:41
These things said Esaias because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
1 Peter 1:10
Concerning which salvation prophets, who have prophesied of the grace towards you, sought out and searched out;

Confessed

Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead from before me.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer willingly after this manner? for all is of thee, and of that which is from thy hand have we given thee.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the land; hide not thy commandments from me.
1 Peter 1:17
And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear,
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

General references

Genesis 21:34
And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said to him, Beware that thou bring not my son thither again.
Leviticus 23:42
In booths shall ye dwell seven days; all born in Israel shall dwell in booths;
Numbers 10:30
And he said to him, I will not go; but to mine own land, and to my kindred will I go.
Deuteronomy 32:52
For thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
Psalm 119:54
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Hebrews 11:39
And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did not receive the promise,
Hebrews 13:14
for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the coming one.
1 Peter 1:9
receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.