Hebrews 11:39

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise,

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith - They were all commended and approved on account of their confidence in God; see the...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(16) And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received (y) not the promise: (16) An amplification taken from the circumstance of...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hebrews 11:39 f. In two closing verses the lesson of all this heroic past is summarised. By their faith the great men of Israel had received prai...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

received . Same Greek. word as in 19. See Note there.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

39. And these all, etc. This is an argument from the less to the greater; for if they on whom the light of grace had not as yet so bright...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2333 THE ADVANTAGES ENJOYED UNDER THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Hebrews 11:39-40 . These all, having obtained a good report through fait...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: Having obtained a good report (having been witnessed to; see H...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And these all, having obtained, &c.— "All these pious heroes, in different ages, were supported under their respective trials, severe and extre...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: Having obtained a good report - `borne witness of.' Tho...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Heroes of Faith The Achievements of Faith, illustrated from the annals of Israel, beginning with the patriarchs and coming down to the martyrs. Th...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A good report ] see on Hebrews 11:2 . 40 . There is here the answer to an implied objection, that the faith of these suffering heroes was all in...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Having obtained a good report. — Now that the history is concluded the word of Hebrews 11:2 is resumed. That in such a faith as was described in...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XIII. A CLOUD OF WITNESSES. "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was a-dying,...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Noble Army of Martyrs” Hebrews 11:32-40 Strong faith is consistent with very different views of religious truth. The conception that Abel,...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Then follows a series of illustrations of the power of faith taken from the history of the Hebrew people. The first is that by faith men know that th...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(32) And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; of David also, and Samuel...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And these all having obtained a good report through faith ,.... This may either be limited to the sufferers in the preceding verses, who were martyr...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: Ver. 39. Received not the promise ] viz. Of Christ's incarn...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

These all, having obtained a good report Μαρτυρηθεντες, being witnessed unto , as persons who did or suffered great things by faith. The expressio...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

This chapter in itself forms a complete division of the book of Hebrews. If previously the doctrine has been thoroughly laid down that faith is the p...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exemplars of Faith. A. D. 62. 32 And what sh...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

OLBGrk; The apostle returns in this verse to the proposition laid down in the second verse, which he had been proving by all these examples, and wit...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Conclusion ( Hebrews 11:39-40 ). ‘And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, did not receive the promise, God having...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 11:37 . Sawn asunder. —The traditional mode of Isaiah’s death. Tempted. — I.e. severely tested. A conjec...
Scofield Reference Notes

faith The essence of faith consists in receiving what God has revealed, and may be defined as that trust in the God of the Scriptures and in J...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Hebrews 11:30-40 We may make use of extraordinary examples to encourage our ordinary faith at ordinary times. These models are on a very grand and...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

In this chapter we read of the wonders of faith; but I have never read a chapter setting forth the wonders of unbelief. Unbelief is barren impotent,...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

First, a definition of faith. Hebrews 11:1-3 . Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elde...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Hebrews 11:32 . And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David als...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hebrews 11:1 . Now faith is the substance of things hoped for. Paul uses here the same Greek word as in Hebrews 1:3 , that the Son is the express...
The Biblical Illustrator

These all … received not the promise What of the saintly dead prior to the coming of Christ? It is altogether probable that among the Jewish Ch...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. On the senses in which the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 1:12 ; Hebrews 11:13 ; Hebrews 11:2 ; Luke 10:23 ; Luke 10:24
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And all these — Though they obtained a good testimony, Hebrews 11:2 , yet did not receive the great promise, the heavenly inheritance.

³⁹ And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

Related Commentaries of Hebrews 11:39

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hebrews 11:39