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Selected Verse: Genesis 24:10 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ge 24:10 |
Strong Concordance |
And the servant [05650] took [03947] ten [06235] camels [01581] of the camels [01581] of his master [0113], and departed [03212]; for all the goods [02898] of his master [0113] were in his hand [03027]: and he arose [06965], and went [03212] to Mesopotamia [0763], unto the city [05892] of Nahor [05152]. |
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King James |
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
THE JOURNEY. (Gen. 24:10-67)
the servant took ten camels, &c.--So great an equipage was to give the embassy an appearance worthy of the rank and wealth of Abraham; to carry provisions; to bear the marriage presents, which as usual would be distributed over several beasts; besides one or two spare camels in case of emergency.
went to Mesopotamia, &c.--A stranger in those regions, who wishes to obtain information, stations himself at one of the wells in the neighborhood of a town, and he is sure to learn all the news of the place from the women who frequent them every morning and evening. Eliezer followed this course, and letting his camels rest, he waited till the evening time of water drawing. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The servant then went, with ten camels and things of every description belonging to his master, into Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor, i.e., Haran, where Nahor dwelt (Gen 11:31, and Gen 12:4). On his arrival there, he made the camels kneel down, or rest, without the city by the well, "at the time of evening, the time at which the women come out to draw water," and at which, now as then, women and girls are in the habit of fetching the water required for the house (vid., Robinson's Palestine ii. 368ff.). He then prayed to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, "Let there come to meet me to-day," sc., the person desired, the object of my mission. He then fixed upon a sign connected with the custom of the country, by the occurrence of which he might decide upon the maiden (הנּער puella, used in the Pentateuch for both sexes, except in Deu 22:19, where נערה occurs) whom Jehovah had indicated as the wife appointed for His servant Isaac. הוכיח (Gen 24:14) to set right, then to point out as right; not merely to appoint. He had scarcely ended his prayer when his request was granted. Rebekah did just what he had fixed upon as a token, not only giving him to drink, but offering to water his camels, and with youthful vivacity carrying out her promise. Niebuhr met with similar kindness in those regions (see also Robinson, Pal. ii. 351, etc.). The servant did not give himself blindly up to first impressions, however, but tested the circumstances. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Took ten camels - It appears that Abraham had left the whole management of this business to the discretion of his servant, to take with him what retinue and what dowry he pleased; for it is added, All the goods of his master were in his hand; and in those times it was customary to give a dowry for a wife, and not to receive one with her. |
14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel [05291] to whom I shall say [0559], Let down [05186] thy pitcher [03537], I pray thee, that I may drink [08354]; and she shall say [0559], Drink [08354], and I will give [08248] thy camels [01581] drink [08248] also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed [03198] for thy servant [05650] Isaac [03327]; and thereby shall I know [03045] that thou hast shewed [06213] kindness [02617] unto my master [0113].
19 And they shall amerce [06064] him in an hundred [03967] shekels of silver [03701], and give [05414] them unto the father [01] of the damsel [05291], because he hath brought up [03318] an evil [07451] name [08034] upon a virgin [01330] of Israel [03478]: and she shall be his wife [0802]; he may [03201] not put her away [07971] all his days [03117].
4 So Abram [087] departed [03212], as the LORD [03068] had spoken [01696] unto him; and Lot [03876] went [03212] with him: and Abram [087] was seventy [07657] [08141] and five [02568] years [08141] old [01121] when he departed [03318] out of Haran [02771].
31 And Terah [08646] took [03947] Abram [087] his son [01121], and Lot [03876] the son [01121] of Haran [02039] his son's [01121] son [01121], and Sarai [08297] his daughter in law [03618], his son [01121] Abram's [087] wife [0802]; and they went forth [03318] with them from Ur [0218] of the Chaldees [03778], to go [03212] into the land [0776] of Canaan [03667]; and they came [0935] unto Haran [02771], and dwelt [03427] there.