<p>11:9 <i>By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as yet not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise</i>- Abraham had been an urban dweller, both in Ur and Haran; not a bedouin. He became a wandering herdsman and tent dweller by faith in the promises to him. The chronology provided in Genesis actually allows for Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to have all lived together at some point in the same encampment. &quot;A sojourner&quot; refers to the way Abraham recognized he was &quot;a stranger and a sojourner&quot; in the land (Gen. 22:4) and therefore needed to buy a burial plot there for his wife.</p>