Charles Ellicott Commentary Hebrews 11:9

"By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" — Hebrews 11:9 (ASV)

The land of promise—More correctly, according to the true reading, a land of the promise: into a land which the promise (Genesis 12:7) made his own, he came as a sojourner, and sojourned in it as in a land belonging to others, making his settled abode there in tents.

The words this text paraphrases are very expressive, especially those of the last clause. Abraham there “made his home once for all, well aware that it was to be his home—expecting no change in this respect all his life long—in tents,” movable, shifting abodes—here today, there tomorrow—with (as they also did in their turn) Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. (Dr. Vaughan.)