Genesis 47:9
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9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The [a]years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have [b]not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”
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- Genesis 47:9 Lit the days of the years of.
- Genesis 47:9 Abraham, Jacob’s grandfather, had lived to be a hundred and seventy-five years old; Isaac, Jacob’s father, lived to be a hundred and eighty. Jacob lived seventeen years after making this statement to Pharaoh, in which time he had an opportunity to get a much more optimistic view of God’s treatment of him. He died at a hundred and forty-seven, having said, “The Angel...has redeemed me continually from all evil” (Gen 48:16).
1 Chronicles 29:15
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15 For we are [a]sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining].
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- 1 Chronicles 29:15 I.e. temporary residents, resident aliens.
Psalm 39:12
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12
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and listen to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am Your temporary guest,
A sojourner like all my fathers.
2 Corinthians 5:6
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6 So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—
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Hebrews 11:13
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13 All these died in faith [guided and sustained by it], without receiving the [tangible fulfillment of God’s] promises, only having seen (anticipated) them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.(A)
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