Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. The LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. Psa 112:1-3Gal 3:9Gen 13:2Pro 10:22Mat 6:33Gen 12:2Gen 18:11Eph 1:3 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh. Gen 47:29Gen 39:4-6Gen 15:2Gen 24:9-10Gen 39:8-9Gen 44:11Ch 29:241Ti 5:17 I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. Gen 26:34-352Co 6:14-17Deu 7:3-4Gen 28:8Neh 13:251Co 7:392Ki 19:15Exo 34:16 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” Gen 28:2Gen 11:25Gen 12:7Gen 22:20-23
The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?” Jer 4:2Exo 20:7Exo 9:2Gen 24:58Pro 13:16
Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again. 2Pe 2:20-22Gal 5:1Heb 10:39Heb 11:9Heb 11:13-16 The LORD, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. Exo 33:2Psa 34:7Exo 23:20-23Gen 13:15Heb 1:14Exo 32:13Gen 15:18Psa 103:20 If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.” Jos 2:17-20Num 30:5Num 30:8Act 7:2Gen 24:4-6Jhn 8:32Jos 9:20
The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. Gen 24:2 The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. Deu 23:4Gen 11:311Ch 19:6Act 2:9Gen 24:2Gen 27:43Gen 29:1Gen 29:4-5 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. 1Sa 9:11Exo 2:16Jhn 4:7Gen 24:13-20Gen 33:13-14Pro 12:10 He said, “LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. Gen 24:27Exo 3:6Gen 26:242Ki 2:14Exo 3:15Gen 24:42Gen 24:48Psa 122:6 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. Gen 24:43Psa 37:51Sa 9:11Exo 2:16Gen 24:11Gen 29:9-10Jdg 5:11Jhn 4:7 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.” Jdg 6:37Jdg 6:17Gen 15:82Ki 20:8-112Sa 5:24Isa 7:111Sa 14:8-10Exo 4:1-9
Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder. Gen 11:29Gen 24:45Isa 65:24Dan 9:20-23Psa 65:2Exo 2:16Gen 22:20-23Isa 58:9 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up. Gen 26:7Gen 39:6Gen 4:1Num 31:17-18Sng 5:2 The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.” Jhn 4:71Ki 17:10Gen 26:1-35Isa 21:14Isa 30:25Isa 35:6-7Isa 41:17-18Isa 49:10
She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink. 1Pe 3:81Pe 4:8-9Gen 24:14Pro 31:26 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.” Gen 24:141Pe 4:9Gen 24:45-46 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. Gen 24:12Psa 107:432Sa 7:18-20Luk 2:19Luk 2:51Psa 116:1-7Gen 24:56Psa 107:1 As the camels had finished drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel 1 weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, Ezk 16:11-12Exo 32:2-3Gen 23:15-16Gen 24:30Gen 24:47Jer 2:32Est 5:1Isa 3:19-23 and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?”
She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.” Gen 24:15Gen 22:23Gen 11:29Gen 22:20 She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.” 1Pe 4:9Isa 32:8Gen 18:4-8Jdg 19:19-21
The man bowed his head, and worshiped the LORD. Gen 24:48Exo 4:31Gen 24:52Exo 12:271Ch 29:202Ch 20:182Ch 29:30Exo 34:8 He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.” Gen 24:48Gen 24:12Gen 32:10Psa 98:3Rut 4:141Sa 25:32Exo 18:102Sa 18:28
The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words. Gen 24:48Gen 24:55Gen 24:67Gen 31:33 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring. Gen 29:5Gen 24:55Gen 29:13Gen 24:60 When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring. He said, “Come in, you blessed of the LORD. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.” Gen 26:29Rut 3:10Psa 115:15Jdg 17:2Pro 18:16Pro 17:8
The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. Gen 43:24Jdg 19:21Gen 18:41Ti 5:10Gen 19:2Luk 7:441Sa 25:41Jhn 13:4-14 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.” Psa 132:3-51Ti 6:2Eph 6:5-8Ecc 9:10Jhn 4:14Jhn 4:31-34Job 23:12Pro 22:29
Laban said, “Speak on.”
He said, “I am Abraham’s servant. The LORD has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. The LORD has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys. Gen 13:2Gen 24:1Pro 10:22Psa 107:38Gen 12:16Mat 6:33Gen 12:2Gen 25:11 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him. Gen 25:5Gen 21:10Gen 21:1-7Gen 17:15-19Gen 18:10-14Rom 4:19Gen 11:29-30 My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live, Ezr 9:1-3Gen 24:2-9Gen 27:46Gen 6:2 but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’ Gen 24:4Gen 12:1Gen 31:19 I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’ Gen 24:5 He said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house. Exo 23:20Psa 16:8Exo 33:2Gen 17:1Gen 5:241Ki 8:232Ki 20:3Dan 3:28 Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’ Gen 24:8Deu 29:12 I came today to the spring, and said, ‘The LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go— Neh 1:11Ezr 8:21Gen 24:12-14Psa 37:5Psa 90:17Rom 1:10Act 10:22Act 10:7-8 behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,” Gen 24:13-14 then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.’ Gen 24:141Pe 3:81Ti 2:10Gen 2:22Heb 13:2Isa 32:8Pro 16:33Pro 18:22 Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’ Act 10:30Act 12:12-17Dan 9:23Gen 24:15-20Isa 65:24Mat 7:71Sa 1:13-152Sa 7:27 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink. Gen 24:18-19 I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands. Ezk 16:10-13Gen 24:22-24Gen 24:53Isa 62:3-5Psa 45:13-14Eph 5:26-27Psa 45:9 I bowed my head, and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son. Gen 24:26-27Pro 3:5-6Psa 32:8Psa 48:14Gen 24:52Isa 48:17Exo 18:20Ezr 8:21 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.” Gen 47:29Jos 2:14Gen 32:10Pro 3:3Deu 2:27Num 20:17
Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can’t speak to you bad or good. Psa 118:23Gen 31:24Gen 31:292Sa 13:22Mrk 12:11Gen 24:15Gen 24:28Gen 24:53 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as the LORD has spoken.” Gen 20:152Sa 16:10Gen 24:15
When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to the LORD. Gen 24:26Gen 24:48Psa 116:1-2Psa 95:61Ch 29:202Ch 20:18Psa 107:21-22Psa 34:1-2 The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother. Gen 24:10Gen 24:22Exo 11:2Exo 12:35Exo 3:222Ch 21:3Deu 33:13-16Ezr 1:6 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.” Gen 24:56Gen 24:592Sa 18:19Ecc 7:10Gen 28:5-6Gen 45:24Pro 22:292Sa 18:27-28
Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.” Gen 4:3Jdg 14:8Lev 25:29
He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.” Isa 48:15Jos 1:8Pro 25:25Gen 45:9-13
They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.” They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” Luk 1:38Psa 45:10-11
She said, “I will go.”
They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men. Gen 35:81Th 2:5Gen 24:50Gen 24:53Gen 24:60Num 11:12 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.” Gen 22:17Gen 17:16Rut 4:11-12Gen 28:3Gen 1:28Gen 48:15-16Gen 9:1Gen 48:20
Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way. Gen 2:24Psa 45:101Sa 30:17Est 8:10Est 8:14Gen 31:34 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South. Gen 16:14Gen 25:11Gen 12:9Gen 20:1 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming. Psa 119:15Jos 1:8Psa 1:2Psa 104:34Psa 143:5-6Psa 119:27Psa 119:48Psa 139:17-18 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel. Jdg 1:14Jos 15:18 She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” 1Ti 2:91Co 11:5-61Co 11:10Gen 20:16
The servant said, “It is my master.”
She took her veil, and covered herself. The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. Mrk 6:30 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. Eph 5:22-33Sng 8:21Th 4:132Co 11:1-2Gen 18:6Gen 18:9-10Gen 23:1-2Gen 25:20