Hebrews 11:39

And all these, having Hashemʼs commendation through their Emunah, did not receive the havtachah (promise),

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

In Context

38those of whom the Olam Hazeh was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains and caves of the earth.

40Hashem having foreseen something better for us, so that, apart from us, they should not be made shleimut.

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Cross References

Luke 10:23And, having turned to the talmidim in a yechidus, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Ashrey [are] the eyes seeing what you see.

Hebrews 11:13Yet all of these became niftarim (deceased) in Emunah, not having received the havtachot (promises), but having seen them and, as it were, they gave the havtachot a “Baruch Habah!” welcome from a distance, and they made the Ani Ma'amin hoda'ah (confession) that they were GERIM (strangers) and TOSHAVIM + 11:13 Gerim…Toshavim see Ps 39:12 [13] (sojourners) in the Golus of the Olam Hazeh.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:33-40

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to… Read the whole commentary →

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