Discovery BoxHebrews 11:13 
Context11:13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, 1 but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners 2 on the earth.
Hebrews 11:17-19
Context11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, 3 yet he was ready to offer up 4 his only son. 11:18 God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,” 5 11:19 and he reasoned 6 that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense 7 he received him back from there.
Hebrews 11:39-40
Context11:39 And these all were commended 8 for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised. 9 11:40 For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us. 10
1 tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.
2 tn Or “sojourners.”
3 tn Here “received the promises” refers to the pledges themselves, not to the things God promised.
4 tn Grk “he was offering up.” The tense of this verb indicates the attempt or readiness to sacrifice Isaac without the actual completion of the deed.
5 tn Grk “in Isaac seed will be named for you.”
sn A quotation from Gen 21:12.
6 tn Grk “having reasoned,” continuing the ideas of v. 17.
7 tn Grk “in/by a symbol.”
8 sn The expression these all were commended forms an inclusio with Heb 11:2: The chapter begins and ends with references to commendation for faith.
9 tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.
10 tn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that they would not be made perfect without us.”
