Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Hebrews 11:9
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Hebrews11:9
9. sojourned--as a "stranger and pilgrim."
in--Greek, "into," that is, he went into it and sojourned there.
as in a strange country--a country not belonging to him, but to others (so the Greek), Ac 7:5, 6.
dwelling in tabernacles--tents: as strangers and sojourners do: moving from place to place, as having no fixed possession of their own. In contrast to the abiding "city" (He 11:10).
with--Their kind of dwelling being the same is a proof that their faith was the same. They all alike were content to wait for their good things hereafter (Lu 16:25). Jacob was fifteen years old at the death of Abraham.
heirs with him of the same promise--Isaac did not inherit it from Abraham, nor Jacob from Isaac, but they all inherited it from God directly as "fellow heirs." In He 6:12, 15, 17, "the promise" means the thing promised as a thing in part already attained; but in this chapter "the promise" is of something still future. However, see on He 6:12.
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