Genesis 24:17
The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
One Unity Resource 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
18She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.
Cross References
Isaiah 30:25There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Isaiah 41:17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. 2 Their tongue fails for thirst. 1 I, Adonai, will answer them. 2 I, the God of Israel [God prevails], will not forsake them. 1
John 4:7A woman of Samaria [Watch-mountain] came to draw water. Yeshua [Salvation] 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 →