Hebrews 11:39
These all, having been commended for their faith, didn’t receive the promise,
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
In Context
38of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
Cross References
Luke 10:23Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
Hebrews 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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 →