Genesis 24:54-67 – A Marriage

Eliezer doesn’t linger more than one night in the house of Rebekah’s family. He knows that Abraham is waiting at home for news, and he wants to hurry back and tell him of how God has blessed his errand. But Rebekah’s family want her to stay a little while longer. Ten days doesn’t seem like a very long time to say good-bye, possibly forever, but there might be more to it than that. It is easy enough to agree that God is guiding something, but the actual obeying of that guidance is quite another thing. It is usually much harder to put into practice what you agree with your mouth. Nevertheless, Eliezer insists that he must go, and so Rebekah is called to see if she will go with him and marry Isaac. She agrees to the marriage, and also she agrees to go at once. So, her family has no choice but to send her on her way with God’s blessing.

Isaac is out in the fields on a solitary evening, possibly praying. Maybe he is even praying about the coming of his wife and will see his prayer answered right before his eyes. When Rebekah finds out that is her new husband, she humbly goes to meet him, and they are married. Isaac loves Rebekah, and she comforts him for his mother’s death.