Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
He sojourned
The heirs
General references
Bible References
He sojourned
Genesis 17:8
And to you and your future offspring I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.”
Genesis 23:4
“I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
Genesis 26:3
stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
Genesis 35:27
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Acts 7:5
He didn’t give him an inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, but He promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless.
Dwelling
Genesis 12:8
From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there, and he called on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 13:3
He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,
Genesis 18:1
Then the Lord appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting in the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.
Genesis 25:27
When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
The heirs
Hebrews 6:17
Because God wanted to show His unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath,
Genesis 26:3
stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
Genesis 28:4
May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
Genesis 48:3
Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
General references
Genesis 21:34
And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.
Genesis 24:6
Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.
Genesis 31:25
When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his brothers also pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.
Hebrews 13:14
For we do not have an enduring city here; instead, we seek the one to come.