Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

And strangers

Bible References

And strangers

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).
Hebrews 11:9
It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land, as in a foreign country, residing in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob who were co-heirs with him of the same promise;