And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
42. And I came this day ] Gen 24:42-48 recapitulate the substance of 12 27.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 42. O Lord God of my master] As Abraham was the friend of God, Eliezer makes use of this to give weight and consequence to his petitions.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
i.e. The design or course in which I am engaged, as the word way is frequently used.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And I came this day unto the well,…. Hither he was come at length by several days’ journey; not on the same day he came from Abraham, as the Jewish writers say n, by means of a miracle:
and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham; being come to the well, he prayed as follows:
if now thou do prosper the way which I go; his meaning is, that if it was the pleasure of God that he should succeed in what he was come about, that he would let him know it by a token; and in Ge 24:42 he relates the token he desired, which was granted him, and his success, as before recorded, from Ge 24:21.
n T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 95. 1. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 59. fol. 52. 2. Jarchi in loc.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘And I came this day to the spring, and said, “Oh Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, if now you prosper my way that I go, see, I am standing by the spring of water. And let it be that the young woman who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say ‘Give me, I pray, a little water from your pitcher to drink’, and she shall say to me, ‘Both you drink and I will also draw for your camels’, let the same be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son. And before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the spring and drew, and I said to her, ‘Let me drink, I pray you’. And she quickly brought her pitcher down from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels drink’. So I drank, and she made the camels drink as well. And I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ And she said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms, and I bowed my head and worshipped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son”.’
The passage must be read as one whole. This is his unrejectable argument as to why Rebekah should be given to Isaac. It begins and ends with reference to ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham’. The work is His doing and to go against it would be to go against Him. It is His work from start to finish. The specific connection to Abraham indicates that he does not expect them to acknowledge Yahweh as their God. But he does expect them to honour His revealed power and authority.
He expects them also to see in what has happened a truly divine hand. What other explanation can there be? For outwardly it could have been any woman who came to the spring, and they must surely see that the fact that it was the one woman whom the steward was seeking could only be attributed to the direct action of Yahweh.
That he had fully recognised this comes out in the fact that he gave the valuable gifts to Rebekah and his openly expressed gratitude to Yahweh. He now calls on his hearers to grant the same recognition.
“If You prosper my way” (Gen 24:42). Everything is in Yahweh’s hands. He possibly expects his readers to realise the covenant that he made with Yahweh. Thus ‘the right way’ (Gen 24:48) is the way brought about by Yahweh.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Gen 24:42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
Ver. 42. And I came this day to the well. ] God’s providences are carefully to be observed and registered. We might have a Divinity of our own, would we but lay up our experiences: which are nothing else, saith the philosopher, but multiplex memoria. David “will remember God from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar,” where he had formerly found him to his comfort. Psa 42:6
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Gen 24:42-44
42″So I came today to the spring, and said, ‘O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now You will make my journey on which I go successful; 43behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”; 44and she will say to me, “You drink, and I will draw for your camels also”; let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.'”
Gen 24:43 “the maid” It is interesting that Rebekah is called a virgin in Gen 24:16, “bethulah” (BDB 143), while in Gen 24:43 she is called a maiden, “alma” (BDB 761). The translators of the Septuagint translated the term “alma” as “virgin” in Isa 7:14 and in this verse. It seems that the terms, culturally, meant the same thing, although “bethulah” specifically means “virgin” and “alma” means “a young woman of marriageable age” who was assumed to be a virgin.
Gen 24:42-48 This is a repetition of the previous discussion in Gen 24:11-27.
Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley
said. Eleazar repeats his prayer from memory, but inexactly. Who could have written the actual words (verses: Gen 24:12-21) but the Holy Inspiring Spirit? He records both the prayer itself and Eleazar’s remembrance of it.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
O Lord: Gen 24:12-14, Act 10:7, Act 10:8, Act 10:22
prosper: Gen 24:12, Gen 24:31, Gen 39:3, Ezr 8:21, Neh 1:11, Psa 37:5, Psa 90:17, Rom 1:10
Reciprocal: 1Sa 1:13 – spake 1Sa 14:12 – Come up after me