“He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.”
Acts 7:5
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Connection with Abraham's well at Beersheba
At Beersheba Abraham had to argue over a single well. In the dry Negev a well decided whether a flock lived through the summer. God had promised Abraham the whole land, yet as Stephen says here, he owned not even a foot of it.
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Genesis 23 points to Jesus through a grave. When Sarah died, Abraham had to buy a cave at Machpelah to bury her, and everyone buried there died still waiting on God's promise. Hebrews says they "died in faith, without having received the things they were promised" (Hebrews 11:13). Jesus walked out of His own tomb as the first to rise.
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