Hebrews 11:15 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 11:15

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And if indeed they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

KJV

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

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Commentary

4 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Hebrews (1274)

598. – But because someone might say that it is true that they were pilgrims in the land of the Philistines and Canaanites, among whom they dwelt, but they intended to return to the land they had left; he rejected this when he says, If …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Secondly, All true believers desire this better country. True faith draws forth sincere and fervent desires; and the stronger faith is the more fervent those desires will be. (7.) They died in the faith of those promises; not only lived by the faith of them, but died in the full persuasion that all the promises would be fulfilled to them and theirs,

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

And truly if they had been mindful of that country ... - If they had remembered it with sufficient interest and affection to have made them desirous to return. They might have had opportunity to have returned - The journey was not so long or perilous that they could not have retraced their steps. It would have been no more difficult or dangerous for them to do that than it was to make the journey at first. This shows that their remaining as strangers and sojourners in the land of Canaan was voluntary.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

(1872)

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
εἰ	ei	if	G1487 →
μὲν	men	indeed	G3303 →
ἐκείνης	ekeinēs	that [one]	G1565 →
ἐμνημόνευον	emnēmoneuon	they were remembering	G3421 →
ἀφ᾽	aph᾽	from	G575 →
ἧς	hēs	where	G3739 →
ἐξέβησαν,	exebēsan	they came out,
εἶχον	eichon	they had	G2192 →
ἂν	an	then would	G302 →
καιρὸν	kairon	opportunity	G2540 →
ἀνακάμψαι·	anakampsai	to return;	G344 →

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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
Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan.…
leads to
- Nehemiah 9:7
  You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- Acts 7:2–4
  And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
- Joshua 24:2–3
  And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and…
- Genesis 15:7
  The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
- Genesis 12:4
  So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
Through
Genesis 12:10
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
leads to
- Genesis 43:1
  Now the famine was still severe in the land.
- Genesis 26:1–3
  Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
Through
Genesis 31:18
and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
leads to
- Genesis 27:41
  Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will…