Heb 11:13-16 | PNT | STEP | These all died in faith, not having received the promises . All the patriarchs named. They died without the fulfillment of the promises, either those of a temporal possession or of an innumerable seed. Having seen them afar off . They beheld them in the future by faith. Confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth . By their whole lives that they were pilgrims. They had no fixed home and were waiting for a country.

Hebrews 11:13-16

These all died in faith, not having received the promises. All the patriarchs named. They died without the fulfillment of the promises, either those of a temporal possession or of an innumerable seed.

Having seen them afar off. They beheld them in the future by faith.

Confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. By their whole lives that they were pilgrims. They had no fixed home and were waiting for a country. They that say such things. Who confess that they are pilgrims.

Declare plainly that they seek a country. This confession shows that they are seeking a country somewhere and have not yet found it. And, truly, if they had been mindful of that [country]. They could have returned to their old home in Ur of the Chaldees, if they had chosen, but though homeless in a strange land they had faith in a future home. But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly. They desired a country better than Chaldea, better even than Canaan. They had a faith which looked for a heavenly country.