1. Acts 7:5 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does it mean that God gave Abraham no inheritance?

Acts 7:5 (ESV)

5 Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.

Abraham received only a promise from God, not the land itself.1 God’s promise of a land to live in was fulfilled when the people of Israel came to inhabit the land of Canaan following the conquest of Joshua.