Genesis 24:2
One day Abraham said to the chief servant of his household, the man who was in charge of everything Abraham owned, “Put your hand between my thighs to solemnly promise you will do what I tell you.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
1Abraham was now a very old man. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in many ways.
Cross References
Genesis 24:9So the servant put his hand between Abraham’s thighs and made a solemn promise about the matter.
Genesis 39:8But he refused, saying to his master’s wife, “Listen! My master is not concerned about anything in this house. He has appointed me to take care of everything that he owns.
Genesis 47:29When it was almost time for him to die, he summoned his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have pleased you, make a solemn promise that you will be kind to me and faithfully do what I am now asking you: When I die, do not bury me here in Egypt.
Ruth 2:6The foreman replied, “She is the woman from Moab who returned from there with her mother-in-law Naomi.
1 Timothy 5:17Each congregation should pay well the elders who lead well. They should greatly honor them, especially those who preach and those who teach.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 24:2-10
Abraham's Charges to His Servant. ( b. c. 1857.) 1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: 3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord , the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my… Read the whole commentary →