Genesis 24:63 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

To meditate; to converse with God, and with himself, by pious and profitable thoughts and ejaculations, and fervent prayers, as for other things, so particularly for God's blessing upon this great affair, and so his prayers are eminently answered. He chooseth a solitary place, wherein he might more freely attend upon God without any interruption or distraction, in the field at the eventide; that as he had begun the day with God, so he might close it with him, and commit himself to his protection. Compare Psalms 55:17.

Genesis 24:63

63 And Isaac went out to meditated in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.