Abraham lived as a stranger, for he had no inheritance, with no permanent building to live in. In the promised land. Literally, “a land of promise.” That is, the land that God had recently promised to give him, and where all the other promises would be fulfilled. As did Isaac and Jacob. As Abraham was like a stranger in a foreign country, in the land of Canaan, without any inheritance or possession, living in tents, so it was for Isaac and Jacob. Jacob was the last person in his family who lived