Genesis 21:34
and he was an earth-tiller, or a comeling, of the land of Palestines in many days. (and as a newcomer, he worked the soil in the land of the Philistines, for many days.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15For we be pilgrims and comelings before thee, as all our fathers were, (or For we be foreigners and newcomers before thee, as all our forefathers were); our days be as (a) shadow on the earth, and there is no tarrying.
Hebrews 11:9By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as in an alien land, (or like in a strange, or a foreign, land), dwelling in little houses with Isaac and Jacob, even-heirs of the same promise.
1 Peter 2:11Most dear (ones), I beseech you, as comelings, [or as guests], (or as newcomers), and pilgrims, to abstain you from fleshly desires, that fight 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 →