Hebrews 11:15 Cross References

Hebrews 11:15

15: If they had meant the country they came from, they would have found a way to go back.

"No!" Abraham warned. "Be careful never to take my son there.
For the LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and my native land, solemnly promised to give this land to my offspring. He will send his angel ahead of you, and he will see to it that you find a young woman there to be my son's wife.
If she is unwilling to come back with you, then you are free from this oath. But under no circumstances are you to take my son there."

At that time there was a severe famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to wait it out.

Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai, and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and left Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But they stopped instead at the village of Haran and settled there.

Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my grandfather Abraham and my father, Isaac--O LORD, you told me to return to my land and to my relatives, and you promised to treat me kindly.
I am not worthy of all the faithfulness and unfailing love you have shown to me, your servant. When I left home, I owned nothing except a walking stick, and now my household fills two camps!
O LORD, please rescue me from my brother, Esau. I am afraid that he is coming to kill me, along with my wives and children.

He drove the flocks in front of him--all the livestock he had acquired at Paddan-aram--and set out on his journey to the land of Canaan, where his father, Isaac, lived.

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