Hebrews 11:10
Good News Translation
For Abraham was waiting for the city which God has designed and built, the city with permanent foundations.

New Revised Standard Version
For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Contemporary English Version
Abraham did this, because he was waiting for the eternal city God had planned and built.

New American Bible
for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he looked for a city that hath foundations: whose builder and maker is God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For he looked for a city that hath foundations: whose builder and maker is God.

he looked.

Hebrews 12:22,28 But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels, . . .

Hebrews 13:14 For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.

John 14:2 In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.

Philippians 3:20 But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

*Gr:

Revelation 21:2,10-27 And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. . . .

whose.

Hebrews 3:4 For every house is built by some man: but he that created all things is God.

Isaiah 14:32 And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in him.

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

Context
The Faith of Abraham and Sarah
9By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise. 10For he looked for a city that hath foundations: whose builder and maker is God. 11By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he was faithful who had promised,…
Cross References
Isaiah 14:32
And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in him.

Hebrews 11:16
But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Hebrews 12:22
But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

Hebrews 13:14
For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.

Revelation 21:2
And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:14
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations: And in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb,

Hebrews 11:9
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