Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
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Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
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And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
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And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
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Passages linked to Genesis 21:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 20:1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
- Psalms 39:12 “Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
- Hebrews 11:9 By faith, he lived as an alien 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.
- Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
- 1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land…
Gen 21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
Ver. 34. Many days.] Twenty-five years at least: for so old was Isaac when he went to be sacrificed. Some halcyons God vouchsafes to his "afflicted, and tossed with tempest"; {Isa 54:11} some rest and repose to his poor pilgrims. Laus Deo .
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land--a picture of pastoral…
Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land--a picture of pastoral and an emblem of Christian life.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (34) In the Philistines’ land—In Gen_21:32 Abimelech on returning…
(34) In the Philistines’ land—In Gen_21:32 Abimelech on returning to Gerar is said to have gone back “into the land of the Philistines!’ But Beer-sheba also in a general way belonged to his dominions, and Abraham dwelt there in peace by reason of the treaty which existed between him and the Philistine king.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines" land many days.…
And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines" land many days. The apparent contradiction between the statement of this verse and that of Ver. 32 may be removed by supposing either,
(1) that as the land of the Philistines had no fixed boundary toward the desert, Beersheba may at this time have been claimed for the kingdom of Gerar (Keil); or,
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(2) that as Beersheba was situated on the confines of the Philistines" territory, Abraham must frequently have sojourned in their country while pasturing his flocks (Rosenm
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