Genesis 24:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. ”

• Genesis 24:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - The Marriage of Isaac 26. קרד qādad , “bow the head.” השׁתחוה shâchâh , “bow the body.” 29. לבן lābān , “Laban, white.” In this circumstantial account of the marriage of Isaa...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And he said, O (f) LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. (f) He grounds his prayer on God's promise made to his master.

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• Genesis 24:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Genesis 24. At his Master's Command, Abraham's Slave Brings Rebekah to Canaan as a Wife for Isaac. The chapter has generally been assigned to J, but it is probably composite, and has been put toget...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. O lord God of my master Abraham. The servant, being destitute of counsel, retakes himself to prayers. Yet he does not simply ask counsel of the Lord; but he also prays that the maid appoi...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. And he said, O Lord God, etc. - "The conduct of this servant," says D...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. And he said, O Lord God of my master ... send me good speed -...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah A charming picture of patriarchal marriage customs. It is very characteristic of the Primitive source.

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• Genesis 24:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (12-14) O Lord God... — Heb., Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham. The word translated “master” throughout this chapter is ‘donai, the ordinary word for lord, and it is so rendered in Genesis 24...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  ISAAC'S MARRIAGE Genesis 24:1-67 "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised."- Proverbs 31:30 . "WHEN a son has attained the age of twen...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Rebekah Meets Abraham's Servant Genesis 24:10-27 As we enter upon a new day, or a fresh undertaking, it is always wise and right to ask for good-speed. Good-speed is God-speed. Praying times ar...

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• Genesis 24:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This chapter is complete in itself and is a perfect idyll. Abraham was well stricken in years. Sarah was dead. Isaac, the son of Abraham, was still unmarried. In the interest of the divine program Is...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. Observe the piety of the servant. Reader! set this down as a sure ma...

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• Genesis 24:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham ,.... He does not call the Lord his God, though no doubt he was, since he appears throughout the whole to be a good man; but the God of Abraham, because...

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• Genesis 24:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. Ver. 12. And he said, O Lord God. ] Begin we all our enterprizes w...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Send me good speed What a noble example is here for all servants to imitate their masters in all goodness! Abraham's servant, we find, had not lived in his master's house without profiting by his e...

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• Genesis 24:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ISAAC'S BRIDE FROM HIS FATHER'S FAMILY Only after Sarah has died does Isaac receive a wife. When Israel, after the death of the Lord Jesus, was set aside as the vessel of God's testimony in the wo...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Journey of Abraham's Servant. B. C. 1857.       10 And the servant took ten camels of the ca...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Or, mercy. He makes no mention of himself, nor of the merits of his master, but he ascribes even temporal blessings, and much more eternal salvation, merely to God's mercy.

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• Genesis 24:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at eventide, the time when the women go out to draw water. And he said, “Oh Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, send me I pr...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 24:10 . Mesopotamia.] The Heb. term is Aram (or Syria) of the two rivers —the name for the district lying between the Euphrates and the Tigris. The Gr . name, Meso...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Our subject is the value of divine guidance, and we shall, therefore, read two passages of Scripture illustrating the truth which we hope to enforce. Genesis 24:1 . And Abraham was old, and well s...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 24:1 . The Lord had blessed Abraham with all the four patriarchal blessings: viz. length of days, a promising issue, vast riches, and victory over his oppressors. Genesis 24:2 . Under...

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• Genesis 24:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And the servant. .. departed. The embassy of Abraham’s servant I. HE USES ALL POSSIBLE HUMAN MEANS OF SUCCESS. II. HE EXPECTS DIVINE HELP. 1. His prayer to God for success ( Genesis 24:12...

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• Genesis 24:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master,— to bear the presents for the bride, to enhance the dignity of his mission, and to serve as a means of...

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• Genesis 24:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The arrival at Haran and the prayer at the well

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• Genesis 24:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  O Lord. Genesis 24:27 Genesis 15:1 Genesis 17:7 Genesis 17:8 Genesis 26:24 Genesis 28:13 Genesis 31:42 Genesis 32:9 Exodus 3:6 Exodus 3:15 1 Kings 18:36 2 Kings 2:14 Matthew...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Seeking a Wife for Isaac Genesis 24:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A remarkable co-incidence. As the Word of God tells the story of Sarah's death, it tells, also, the story of Rebekah's birth. Ge...

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• Genesis 24:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Send me good speed this day — We have leave to be particular in recommending our affairs to the care of Divine providence. Those that would have good speed must pray for it this day, in this affair...

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