Cross references
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
Hebrews 11:9 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 12:8 (10 votes) and Genesis 13:18 (9 votes). 45 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 4 to Hebrews 13.
Which verses does Hebrews 11:9 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Genesis 12:810 votes
From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
- Genesis 13:189 votes
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
- Genesis 13:37 votes
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
- Acts 7:5–66 votes
He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child. God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
- Hebrews 6:176 votes
So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
- Genesis 18:95 votes
“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
- Genesis 26:3–45 votes
Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
- Genesis 35:275 votes
Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
- Genesis 48:3–45 votes
Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
- Genesis 28:44 votes
And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
- Genesis 17:83 votes
And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
- Genesis 18:1–23 votes
- Genesis 28:13–143 votes
- Genesis 18:62 votes
- Genesis 23:42 votes
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
- Genesis 25:272 votes
Which verses point to Hebrews 11:9?
The 10 strongest of 45.