Hebrews 11:9 Cross References
Hebrews 11:9
9: And even when he reached the land God promised him, he lived there by faith--for he was like a foreigner, living in a tent. And so did Isaac and Jacob, to whom God gave the same promise.
Genesis 12:8
- After that, Abram traveled southward and set up camp in the hill country between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar and worshiped the LORD.
Genesis 13:18
- Then Abram moved his camp to the oak grove owned by Mamre, which is at Hebron. There he built an altar to the LORD.
Genesis 13:3
- Then they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where they had camped before.
Hebrews 6:17
- God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.
Genesis 18:9
- "Where is Sarah, your wife?" they asked him. "In the tent," Abraham replied.
Genesis 35:27
- So Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, which is near Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron), where Abraham had also lived.
Genesis 48:3
- Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
- He said to me, `I will make you a multitude of nations, and I will give this land of Canaan to you and your descendants as an everlasting possession.'
Genesis 28:13
- At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, "I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I will give it to you and your descendants.
- Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will cover the land from east to west and from north to south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.
Genesis 17:8
- Yes, I will give all this land of Canaan to you and to your offspring forever. And I will be their God.
Genesis 18:6
- So Abraham ran back to the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Get three measures of your best flour, and bake some bread."
Genesis 18:1
- The LORD appeared again to Abraham while he was camped near the oak grove belonging to Mamre. One day about noon, as Abraham was sitting at the entrance to his tent,
- he suddenly noticed three men standing nearby. He got up and ran to meet them, welcoming them by bowing low to the ground.
Genesis 26:3
- Do as I say, and stay here in this land. If you do, I will be with you and bless you. I will give all this land to you and your descendants, just as I solemnly promised Abraham, your father.
- I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
Genesis 25:27
- As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open fields, while Jacob was the kind of person who liked to stay at home.
Genesis 23:4
- "Here I am, a stranger in a foreign land, with no place to bury my wife. Please let me have a piece of land for a burial plot."
Acts 7:5
- But God gave him no inheritance here, not even one square foot of land. God did promise, however, that eventually the whole country would belong to Abraham and his descendants--though he had no children yet.
- But God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign country where they would be mistreated as slaves for four hundred years.
Genesis 28:4
- May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where we now are foreigners, for God gave it to Abraham."