Hebrews 11:13

In faith, all these died—not bearing away the promises, but, from afar, beholding and saluting them, and confessing that, strangers and sojourners, were they upon the land.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

In Context

12Wherefore, even from one, were born, and, as to these things, one who had become dead,—like the stars of the heaven, for multitude, and as the sand that is by the lip of the sea, that cannot be numbered.

14For, they who such things as these are saying, make it clear that, of a paternal home they are in quest;

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4A sojourner and settler, am I with you,—Give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, That I may bury my dead, from before me.

Genesis 27:2And he said, Behold, I pray thee, I am old,—I know not the day of my death.

Genesis 48:21And Israel said unto Joseph: Lo! I, am about to die,—but it shall come to pass that, God will be with you, and will take you back into the land of your fathers.

Genesis 49:18For thy salvation, have I waited O Yahweh!

Genesis 49:33So Jacob made an end of commanding his sons, and gathered up his feet into the couch,—and ceased to breathe and was gathered unto his people.

Numbers 10:30And he said unto him, I will not go,—but unto my own land, and unto my own kindred, will I go.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →

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