Hebrews 11:13 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 11:13

All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

KJV

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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Commentary

4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

These all died in faith - That is, those who had been just mentioned - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Sarah. It was true of Abel and Noah also that they died in faith, but they are not included in “this” declaration, for the “promises” were not particularly entrusted to them, and if the word “these” be made to include them it must include Enoch also, who did not die at all.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Died in faith - In death faith acts most vigourously. Not having received the promises - The promised blessings. Embraced - As one does a dear friend when he meets him.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Observe, (1.) Many that are interested in the promises do not presently receive the things promised. (2.) One imperfection of the present state of the saints on earth is that their happiness lies more in promise and reversion than in actual enjoyment and possession. The gospel state is more perfect than the patriarchal, because more of the promises are now fulfilled.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

That faith held out to the last. By faith, when they were dying, they received the atonement; they acquiesced in the will of God; they quenched all the fiery darts of the devil; they overcame the terrors of death, disarmed it of its sting, and bade a cheerful farewell to this world and to all the comforts and crosses of it. These were the actings of their faith.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1825: “An Inscription for the Mausoleum of the Saints” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1885)

Believers are a class by themselves, even when they die. It is idle to think that we can mark out a spot in the cemetery where none but saints shall sleep, but yet there is a truth at the bottom of that folly. There is a separation even in death between the righteous and the wicked. The Lord seems to erect a mausoleum in which lie asleep the bodies of His people and He writes this epitaph across the front, "THESE ALL DIED IN FAITH." As for those who died without faith, they indeed, died.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Κατὰ	Kata	In	G2596 →
πίστιν	pistin	faith	G4102 →
ἀπέθανον	apethanon	died	G599 →
οὗτοι	houtoi	these	G3778 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
λαβόντες	labontes	having received	G2983 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
ἐπαγγελίας	epangelias	promises	G1860 →
ἀλλὰ	alla	but	G235 →
πόρρωθεν	porrōthen	from afar	G4207 →
αὐτὰς	autas	them	G846 →
ἰδόντες	idontes	having seen	G1492 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀσπασάμενοι	aspasamenoi	having embraced [them]	G782 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὁμολογήσαντες	homologēsantes	having confessed	G3670 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ξένοι	xenoi	strangers	G3581 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
παρεπίδημοί	parepidēmoi	sojourners	G3927 →
εἰσιν	eisin	they are	G1510 →
ἐπὶ	epi	on	G1909 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
γῆς.	gēs	earth.	G1093 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
leads to
- Leviticus 25:23
  The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 119:19
  I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 2:11
  Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- 2 Kings 20:5
  “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I…
Through
John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”
leads to
- Galatians 3:7–9
  Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.
- Genesis 22:18
  And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
- John 8:39
  “Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.
Through
Hebrews 11:27
By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 4:18
  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.