Genesis 24:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

That this was not a rash and vain fancy, but a special expectation and confidence wrought in him by God's Spirit, appears both by the eminent prudence and godliness of this person, and by the exact correspondency of the event with his prayer, and by parallel examples, as Judges 6:36 1 Samuel 6:7, 1 Samuel 14:8. She that thou hast appointed; Heb. evidently pointed out; or, exactly searched out, as a person meet for him.

Genesis 24:14

14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.