Genesis 21:34
And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Hebrews 11:9By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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 →