Verse 11

He had the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

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  • 1 Sam 9:11 : 11 As they were climbing the hill to the town, they met young women coming out to draw water, and they asked them, "Is the seer here?"
  • Exod 2:16 : 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.
  • John 4:7 : 7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
  • Prov 12:10 : 10 The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
  • Gen 24:13-20 : 13 "See, I am standing here by the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. 14 May it be that when I say to a young woman, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I'll water your camels too,' let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." 15 Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother. 16 The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again. 17 The servant hurried to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar." 18 "Drink, my lord," she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink. 19 After she had given him a drink, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink." 20 So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.
  • Gen 33:13-14 : 13 But Jacob replied, 'My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds that are nursing are my responsibility. If they are driven hard even for one day, all the flocks will die.' 14 'Let my lord go ahead of his servant; I will move at a gentle pace as the livestock and children are able to go until I come to my lord in Seir.'