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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 24:63

Meditate] naturally, on the bride he had not seen and whose coming he awaited. But the Syriac version reads, 'to walk in the fields.'

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 24:63. _ISAAC WENT OUT TO MEDITATE_] לשוח _lasuach_, to bend down the body, or the mind, or both. He was probably in deep thought, with his eyes fixed upon the ground. What the subject o...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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 Isaac, we have a b...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 24 THE BRIDE SOUGHT FOR ISAAC _ 1. The commission to the servant (Genesis 24:1)_ 2. The obedience and prayer of the servant (Genesis 24:10) 3. The prayer answered (Genesis 24:15) 4. Th

  • 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 together...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MEDITATE. Refers back to the historical context, Genesis 23:19, the death and burial of Sarah, his mother. What follows this digression (of which Isaac as yet knew nothing) in Genesis 24:1 shows that...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _to meditate_ A strange and poetical word to be used in this context. It has given rise to very various renderings: LXX ἀδολεσχῆσαι, Lat. _ad meditandum_, Aq. ὁμιλῆσαι, Sym. λαλῆσαι, Syr. Pesh. "to wa...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Abraham's Servant brings Rebekah to Isaac 55. _her brother and her mother_ LXX and Lat. read "her brothers and her mother." a few _days, at the least ten_ Heb. "days or ten," or, as we should say, ...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. _Provision of a Wife for Isaac_ (Genesis 24:1-67) 1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of h...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND ISAAC WENT OUT TO MEDITATE IN THE FIELD AT THE EVENTIDE: AND HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND SAW, AND, BEHOLD, THE CAMELS WERE COMING._ Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide - [Hebr...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 24 ABRAHAM’S SERVANT LOOKS FOR A WIFE FOR ISAAC V1 Abraham was an old man. He had lived for many years. The *Lord had always been very kind to Ab...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO MEDITATE. — Many Jewish commentators translate _to pray,_ and derive one of the three Jewish forms of prayer from this act of Isaac. But though the verb is rare, the substantive is used in Psalms 1...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֵּצֵ֥א יִצְחָ֛ק לָ שׂ֥וּחַ בַּ †...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    ISAAC'S MARRIAGE Genesis 24:1 "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 twenty years, h...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    REBEKAH MARRIES ISAAC Genesis 24:50 Rebekah's relatives recognized the hand of God in what had taken place, and could not demur. The maiden herself was not asked, according to Oriental custom, but in...

  • 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 Isa...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    REBEKAH BECOMES ISAAC'S WIFE The family then sent Rebekah away with her nurse and maids by her side. They blessed her, saying, "Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands; an...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Isaac went out to (e) meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels [were] coming. (e) This was the habit of the godly fathers to meditate on...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _To meditate on the obligations of the state on which he was about to enter, and on other pious subjects, free from noise and distraction. (Haydock) --- In profane authors, the word used by the Septua...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him. And there was set meat befo...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    63._And Isaac went out_. It appears that Isaac dwelt apart from his father; either because the family was too large, or because such was the custom. And perhaps Abraham had already married another wif...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, AND 24. But on this introduction of the heir, he necessarily becomes the main subject; and chapter 22 opens with it: "It came to pass after these thin...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ISAAC WENT OUT TO MEDITATE IN THE FIELD AT EVENTIDE,.... Both the time and place were very proper for meditation: the place, "in the field": where he might view the works of nature, and be led to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels [were] coming. Ver. 63. _To meditate in the field._] Or to pray; there he had...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He went out to meditate_ (or pray) _in the field at the even-tide_ Some think he expected his servants about this time, and went out on purpose to meet them. But it should seem he went out to take th...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [CARE TO PROUIDE A WIFE FOR ISAAC.] 1 Abraham sweareth his seruant. 10 The seruants iourney: 12 His prayer: 14 His signe. 15 Rebekah meeteth him, 18 fulfilleth his signe, 22 receiueth iewels,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide, for meditation, deliberation, and prayer, very likely also with regard to the very important step, his approaching marriage. AND HE LIFTED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    TWELFTH SECTION _Abraham’s care for Isaac’s marriage. Eliezer’s wooing of the bride for Isaac. The theocratic founding of a picous bride-wooing. Isaac’s marriage_ GENESIS 24:1-67 1And Abraham was ol...

  • Leslie 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 world...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TO MEDITATE: Or, to pray...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    54-67 Abraham's servant, as one that chose his work before his pleasure, was for hastening home. Lingering and loitering no way become a wise and good man who is faithful to his duty. As children oug...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 aff...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The connection of this chapter, with the two which precede it, is worthy of notice. In Genesis 1:24 the son is offered up; in Genesis 1:20 Sarah is laid aside; and in Genesis 1:67 the servant is sent...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 24:63 Isaac H3327 out H3318 (H8799) meditate H7742 (H8800) field H7704 evening H6153 H6437 ...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 24:63 Meditating was the same to Isaac that it is to us. Under all skies, in all times, thought has flowed in the same channel and observed the same laws. It is those who love to meditate tha...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Bride of Isaac secured by Abraham's servant. CHARACTERS: Abraham, servant, Bethuel, Laban, Sarah, Isaac. CONCLUSION: God leads in every detail of our lives. The marriage which is not accor...

  • 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 my th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide_ MEDITATION Meditating was the same to Isaac that it is to us. Under all skies, in all times, thought has flowed in the same channel and obs...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 24:1 Abraham sends one of his servants to his homeland in Mesopotamia to find a wife for Isaac. The journey was about 550 miles (900 km) and would have taken the servant about...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 24:63 ISAAC WENT OUT. This is another divinely directed event, allowing Isaac to be the first to meet Rebekah when they arrive. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 24:63. To meditate.] Onkelos has _to pray,_ and the LXX. _to exercise himself, i.e.,_ religiously, to employ his mind and heart in devout contemplation. The Heb. word occurs...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 24:61 AND REBEKAH AROSE, AND HER DAMSELS,—probably a company, at least two, though Laban afterwards only gave each of his daughters one (Genesis 29:24,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And Abraham was old, and well-stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    to meditate. or, to pray. Joshua 1:8 Psalms 1:2 Psalms 77:11 Psalms 77:12 Psalms

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    OVER THE DESERT SANDS Genesis 24:28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Lord honored a marriage scene in Cana of Galilee with His presence. Marriage is honorable in all. God has said, "It is not good that the m...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He went out to meditate (or pray) in the field at the even tide — Some think he expected his servants about this time, and went out on purpose to meet them. But it should seem he went out to take the...

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