Genesis 21:34
Abraham lived in the land of the Philistine people-group for a long time.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15In this land we are like [MET] foreigners and strangers, like our ancestors were. Our time here on this earth is like [SIM] a shadow that disappears quickly; we know that there is nothing that can enable us to escape dying.
Hebrews 11:9It was because Abraham trusted God that he lived as though he was a foreigner in the land that God had promised to him. Abraham lived in tents, and his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob did also. God promised to give to Isaac and Jacob the same things that he promised to give Abraham.
1 Peter 2:11You people whom I love, I urge you to consider that you are like foreigners [MET, DOU] whose real home is in heaven. As a result, avoid doing the things that your self-directed nature desires, because those desires ◄fight against/always oppose► your souls.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:34
33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord , the everlasting God. 34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days. Observe, 1. Abraham, having got into a good neighbourhood, knew when he was well off, and continued a great while there. There he planted a grove for a shade to his tent, or perhaps an orchard of fruit-trees; and there, though we cannot say he settled, for God would have him, while he lived, to be a stranger and a pilgrim, yet he sojourned many… Read the whole commentary →