Hebrews 11:9

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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

Acts 7:5

Dwelling

The heirs

General references

Bible References

He sojourned

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger: even all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and will be their God."

"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."

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these countries. And I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father,

Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.

and he gave him none inheritance in it - no, not the breadth of a foot - But promised that he would give it to him to possess and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Dwelling

Then departed he thence unto a mountain that lieth on the east side of Bethel and pitched his tent - Bethel being on the west side, and Ai on the east - and he built there an altar unto the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.

And he went on his journey from the south even unto Bethel, and unto the place where his tent was at the first time between Bethel and Ai,

And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.

and the boys grew, and Esau became a cunning hunter and a tillman. But Jacob was a simple man and dwelled in the tents.

The heirs

So God, willing very abundantly to show, unto the heirs of promise, the stableness of his counsel; he added an oath,

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these countries. And I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father,

and give thee the blessing of Abraham: both to thee and to thy seed with thee, that thou mayest possess the land - wherein thou art a stranger - which God gave unto Abraham."

and said unto Joseph, "God almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

General references

and dwelt in the Philistine land a long season.

And Abraham said unto him, "Beware of that, that thou bring not my son thither.

And Laban overtook Jacob: and Jacob had pitched his tent in that mount. And Laban with his brethren pitched their tent also upon the mount Gilead.

For here have we no continuing city: but we seek a one to come.