Heb 11 | TSK | STEP | What faith is. Without faith we cannot please God. The worthy fruits thereof in the fathers of old time. faith. is the. substance. or, ground, or, confidence. hoped. the evidence.

a proper child.That is, a fine, beautiful, or fair child, as our translators render [asteios ] in Ac 7:20; which was in their time the sense of proper, from the French propre.

and they.

13:6; Ps 56:4; 118:6; Isa 8:12,13; 41:10,14; 51:7,12; Da 3:16-18

Da 6:10; Mt 10:28; Lu 12:4,5

the king's.

Ex 1:16,22

when.

Ex 2:10; Ac 7:21-24

Choosing.

10:32; Job 36:21; Ps 84:10; Mt 5:10-12; 13:21; Ac 7:24,25; 20:23,24

Ro 5:3; 8:17,18,35-39; 2Co 5:17; Col 1:24; 2Th 1:3-6; 2Ti 1:8

2Ti 2:3-10; 3:11,12; Jas 1:20; 1Pe 1:6,7; 4:12-16

the people.

4:9; Ps 47:9; 1Pe 2:10

the pleasures.

Job 20:5; 21:11-13; Ps 73:18-20; Isa 21:4; 47:8,9; Lu 12:19,20

Lu 16:25; Jas 5:5; Re 18:7

the reproach.

10:33; 13:13; Ps 69:7,20; 89:50,51; Isa 51:7; Ac 5:41; 2Co 12:10

2Co 12:10; 1Pe 1:11; 4:14

of Christ. or, for Christ. greater.

Ps 37:16; Jer 9:23,24; 2Co 6:10; Eph 1:18; 3:8; Re 2:9; 3:18

for he had.

6; 2:2; 10:35; Ru 2:12; Pr 11:18; 23:18; Mt 5:12; 6:1; 10:41; Lu 14:14

he forsook.

Ex 10:28,29; 11:8; 12:11,37-42; 13:17-21

not fearing.

Ex 2:14,15; 4:19; 14:10-13

endured.

6:15; 10:32; 12:3; Mt 10:22; 24:13; Mr 4:17; 13:13; 1Co 13:7; Jas 5:11

seeing.

1,13; 12:2; Ps 16:8; Ac 2:25; 2Co 4:18; 1Ti 1:17; 6:16; 1Pe 1:8

he kept.

Ex 12:3-14,21-30

the sprinkling.

9:19; 12:24; Ex 12:7,13,23; 1Pe 1:2

Ex 14:13-31; 15:1-21; Jos 2:10; Ne 9:11; Ps 66:6; 78:13; 106:9-11

Ps 114:1-5; 136:13-15; Isa 11:15,16; 51:9,10; 63:11-16; Hab 3:8-10

Jos 6:3-20; 2Co 10:4,5

the harlot.

Jos 2:1-22; 6:22-25; Mt 1:1,5; Jas 2:25

believed not. or, were disobedient.

3:18; 1Pe 2:8; 3:20

she had.

Jos 1:1; 2:4-24

what shall.

Ro 3:5; 4:1; 6:1; 7:7

the time.

Gedeon.

Gideon.

Jerubbaal. Barak.

Samson.

Jephthae.

Jephthah. David.

1Sa 16:1,13; 17:1-18:30; Ac 2:29-31; 13:22-36

Samuel.

1Sa 1:20; 2:11,18; 3:1-12:25; 28:3-25; Ps 99:6; Jer 15:1; Ac 3:24

Ac 13:20

the prophets.

Mt 5:12; Lu 13:28; 16:31; Ac 10:43; Jas 5:10; 1Pe 1:10-12; 2Pe 1:21

2Pe 3:2

through.

Jos 6:1-13:33; 2Sa 5:4-25; 8:1-14; Ps 18:32-34; 44:2-6; 144:1,2,10

wrought.

4-8,17

obtained.

6:12-15; 10:36; 2Sa 7:11-17; Ga 3:16

stopped.

Jud 14:5,6; 1Sa 17:33-36; Ps 91:13; Da 6:20-23; 2Ti 4:17; 1Pe 5:8

Quenched.

Ps 66:12; Isa 43:2; Da 3:19-28; 1Pe 4:12

escaped.

1Sa 20:1; 2Sa 21:16,17; 1Ki 19:3; 2Ki 6:16-18,32; Job 5:20

Ps 144:10; Jer 26:24

out of.

Jud 7:19-25; 8:4-10; 15:14-20; 16:19-30; 2Ki 20:7-11; Job 42:10

Ps 6:8; 2Co 12:9,10

turned.

1Sa 14:13-15; 17:51,52; 2Sa 8:1-18; 2Ch 14:11-14; 16:1-9; 20:6-25

2Ch 32:20-22

Women.

1Ki 17:22-24; 2Ki 4:27-37; Lu 7:12-16; Joh 11:40-45; Ac 9:41

tortured.

Ac 22:24,25,29

not accepting.

Ac 4:19

that they.

Mt 22:30; Mr 12:25; Lu 14:14; 20:36; Joh 5:29; Ac 23:6; 24:15

1Co 15:54; Php 3:11

mockings.

Jud 16:25; 2Ki 2:23; 2Ch 30:10; 36:16; Jer 20:7; Mt 20:19; Mr 10:34

Lu 18:32; 23:11,36

and scourgings.

1Ki 22:24; Jer 20:2; 37:15; Mt 21:35; 23:34; 27:26; Ac 5:40; 16:22,23

2Co 11:24,25

bonds.

10:34; Ge 39:20; 1Ki 22:27; 2Ch 16:10; Ps 105:17,18; Jer 20:2; 29:26

Jer 32:2,3,8; 36:6; 37:15-21; 38:6-13,28; 39:15; La 3:52-55; Ac 4:3

Ac 5:18; 8:3; 12:4-19; 16:24-40; 21:33; 24:27; 2Co 11:23; Eph 3:1; 4:1

2Ti 1:16; 2:9; Re 2:10

stoned.

1Ki 21:10,13-15; 2Ch 24:21; Mt 21:35; 23:37; Lu 13:34; Joh 10:31-33

Ac 7:58,59; 14:19; 2Co 11:25

were slain.

1Sa 22:17-19; 1Ki 18:4,13; 19:1,10,14; Jer 2:30; 26:23; La 4:13,14

Mt 23:35-37; Lu 11:51-54; Ac 7:52; 12:2,3

in sheepskins.

2Ki 1:8; Mt 3:4; Re 11:3

being destitute.

12:1-3; Zec 13:9; Mt 8:20; 1Co 4:9-13; 2Co 11:23-27; 12:10

Jas 5:10,11

whom.

1Ki 14:12,13; 2Ki 23:25-29; Isa 57:1

wandered.

1Sa 22:1; 23:15,19,23; 24:1-3; 26:1; 1Ki 17:3; 18:4,13; 19:9

Ps 142:1; *title

Ps 142:2-7

2,13; Lu 10:23,24; 1Pe 1:12

provided. or, foreseen. better.

7:19,22; 8:6; 9:23; 12:24

they without.

9:8-15; 10:11-14; Ro 3:25,26

made.

5:9; 12:23; Re 6:11The apostle in the early part of the chapter having given us a general account of the grace of faith, proceeds to set before us some illustrious examples of it in Old Testament times. The leading instance and example of faith recorded, is that of righteous Abel: one of the first saints and the first martyr for religion--one who lived by faith and died for it, and therefore a fit pattern for the Hebrews to imitate. It is observable that the Holy Spirit has not thought fit to say any thing here of the faith of our first parents; and yet the church of God has generally, by a pious charity, taken it for granted that God gave them repentance and faith in the promised seed; that he instructed them in the mystery of sacrificing, that they instructed their children in it, and that they found mercy with God, after they had ruined themselves and all their posterity. But God has left the matter still under some doubt, as a warning to all who have great talents given to them, and a great trust reposed in them, that they do not prove unfaithful, since God would not enrol our first parents among the number of believers in this blessed calendar.--Henry.