Genesis 21:34
And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistims land a long season.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are stragers before thee, and soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, and there is none abiding.
Hebrews 11:9By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promise.
1 Peter 2:11Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstaine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,
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 →