Hebrews 11:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

Cross References

Genesis 12:8

And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

Genesis 13:18

And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

Genesis 13:3

And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

Genesis 17:8

And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

Genesis 18:6

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Genesis 18:9

And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the tent.

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

Genesis 23:4

I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

Genesis 25:27

And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Genesis 28:4

And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.

Genesis 31:25

Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead.

Genesis 35:27

And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

Genesis 36:7

For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

Psalm 105:12

When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

Jeremiah 35:7

And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

Hebrews 6:17

So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;