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 gave him no inheritance in it, no, not a single square yard of ground. And yet He promised to bestow the land as a permanent possession on him and his posterity after him--and promised this at a time when Abraham was childless.
Hebrews 11:9
Through faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise;