live many days - according to the promise connected with the fifth commandment (Exo 20:12; Eph 6:2, Eph 6:3).
strangers - They were not of the stock of Jacob, but sojourners in Israel. Types of the children of God, pilgrims on earth, looking for heaven as their home: having little to lose, so that losing times cost them little alarm; sitting loose to what they have (Heb 10:34; Heb 11:9, Heb 11:10, Heb 11:13-16).