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 did not give him any inheritance in it, not even a foot of the land. All be did was to promise that he would give it as a possession to him and to his offspring after him (he at the time being childless).

The heirs

Hebrews 6:17
God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath;

General references

Hebrews 13:14
(for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come).