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

Acts 7:5
"But he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not a single square yard of ground; yet he promised to bestow the land as a permanent possession on him and his posterity??e at that time being childless.

The heirs

Hebrews 6:17
On which principle God, wishing to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, mediated with an oath;

General references

Hebrews 13:14
For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.