Hebrews 11:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The land of promise — More correctly, according to the true reading, a land of the promise: into a land which the promise (Genesis 12:7) made his own he came as a sojourner, and sojourned in it as in a land belonging to others, making his settled abode there in tents. The words of which this is a paraphrase are very expressive, especially those of the last clause. Abraham there “made his home once for all, well aware that it was to be his home — expecting no change in this respect all his life long — in tents,” movable, shifting abodes — here to-day, there to-morrow — with (as did also in their turn) “Isaac and Jacob,” the “heirs with him of the same promise.” (Dr. Vaughan.)