Genesis 24:14

He asks for a sign: the right woman will offer water to him and his camels. He seeks one whose kindness will mark her as God's appointed choice.

Cross-references · 17

• Judg 6:37behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”
• Judg 6:17He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
• Gen 15:8He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
• 2 Kgs 20:8–11Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?”
• Isa 7:11“Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
• 2 Sam 5:24When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
• Prov 19:14House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
• Exod 4:1–9Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”
• Judg 18:5They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”
• 1 Sam 14:8–10Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them.
• Rom 1:10requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
• Judg 7:13–15When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
• 1 Sam 10:2–10When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall I do for my son?”’
• 2 Sam 20:9Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
• Gen 24:44and she will tell me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,” — let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’
• 1 Sam 6:7–9“Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
• 1 Sam 20:7If he says, ‘It is well;’ your servant shall have peace: but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

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