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 then fell sick and died, in a lusty age - when he had lived enough - and was put unto his people.
Genesis 27:2
And he said, "Behold, I am old and know not the day of my death:
Genesis 48:21
And Israel said unto Joseph, "Behold, I die. And God shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Genesis 49:18
After thy saving look I, LORD.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said unto his brethren, "I die; And God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he sware unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

Not

Hebrews 11:39
And these all, through faith, obtained good report, and received not the promise;

But

Hebrews 11:27
By faith he forsook Egypt, and feared not the fierceness of the king. For he endured, even as he had seen him which is invisible.
Genesis 49:10
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a ruler from between his legs, until Shiloh come, unto whom the people shall hearken.
Numbers 24:17
I see him but not now, I behold him but not nigh. There shall come a star of Jacob and rise a scepter of Israel, which shall smite the coasts of Moab and undermine all the children of Seth.
Job 19:25
"For I am sure that my redeemer liveth, and that I shall rise out of the earth in the latter day:
John 8:56
Your father Abraham was glad to see my day, and he saw it and rejoiced."
John 12:41
Such things said Isaiah when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
1 Peter 1:10
Of which salvation have the prophets enquired, and searched, which prophesied of the grace that should come unto you;

Confessed

Genesis 23:4
"I am a stranger and a foreigner among you; give me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."
1 Chronicles 29:14
But all is of thee, and of that we received of thine hand we have given thee.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and with thine ears consider my calling; hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger upon earth; O hide not thy commandments from me.
1 Peter 1:17
And if so be that ye call on the father, which without respect of person judgeth according to every man's works, see that ye pass the time of your pilgrimage in fear:
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,

General references

Genesis 21:34
and dwelt in the Philistine land a long season.
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said unto him, "Beware of that, that thou bring not my son thither.
Leviticus 23:42
And ye shall dwell in booths seven days: even all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths,
Numbers 10:30
And he said unto him, "I will not: but will go to mine own land and to my kindred."
Deuteronomy 32:52
Thou shalt see the land before thee, but shall 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, through faith, obtained good report, and received not the promise;
Hebrews 13:14
For here have we no continuing city: but we seek a one to come.
1 Peter 1:9
receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.