Genesis 24:17
So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
In Context
18“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
Cross References
1 Kings 17:10So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”
Isaiah 30:25And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Isaiah 41:17The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
John 4:7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 24:11-29
Journey of Abraham's Servant. ( b. c. 1857.) 10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. 11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. 12 And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham.… Read the whole commentary →