Genesis 24:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

She said, I will draw water for thy camels also What amiable qualities does Rebekah show! What condescension! what good-nature! what humanity! The servant asks only to drink a little water out of her pitcher, and she not only gives this with the most obliging courtesy, but hastens to draw water for all his camels. Well might the servant wonder with pleasure, and conclude that God had made his journey prosperous. The only thing that kept him in doubt about it was his not knowing whether she was of Abraham's kindred. One of so much condescension, good-nature, humanity, courtesy, and readiness to oblige, he concluded, would certainly make his master's son happy in the marriage state; and therefore he had requested of God that the person whom he had appointed for Isaac's wife should act in such a manner.

Genesis 24:19

19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.