Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
sojourned--as a "stranger and pilgrim."
in--Greek, "into," that is, he went into it and sojourned there.
as in a strange country--a country not belonging to him, but to others (so the Greek), Acts 7:5-6.
dwelling in tabernacles--tents: as strangers and sojourners do: moving from place to place, as having no fixed possession of their own. In contrast to the abiding "city" (Hebrews 11:10).
with--Their kind of dwelling being the same is a proof that their faith was the same. They all alike were content to wait for their good things hereafter (Luke 16:25). Jacob was fifteen years old at the death of Abraham.
heirs with him of the same promise--Isaac did not inherit it from Abraham, nor Jacob from Isaac, but they all inherited it from God directly as "fellow heirs." In Hebrews 6:12, Hebrews 6:15, Hebrews 6:17, "the promise" means the thing promised as a thing in part already attained; but in this chapter "the promise" is of something still future. However, see on Hebrews 6:12.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 105:12-15
Isaiah 33:20
Jeremiah 35:7
Philippians 3:20
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