Abraham sent an unnamed servant to go and find a bride for Isaac. He told the servant, “I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.” Genesis 24:63
Some of Abraham’s relatives were still living in Haran. Haran is north of the Holy Land, in Turkey near the border of Syria. The return journey would have been around 1470 kilometres.
Reaching Mesopotamia the unnamed servant met Rebecca at a well. She generously drew water for him and his ten camels. He watched her closely. When she fulfilled the signs the servant looked for, he gave her a ring and two bracelets. Rebecca agreed to go on the journey with the servant.
Isaac was now living in the south at Beer Lahai Roi, the well named by Hagar.
Rebecca first clapped eyes on Isaac when he’d gone out into the desert evening to meditate. Seeing him, she dismounted from her camel. The servant announced to her who Isaac was, and Rebecca veiled herself. The servant told Isaac all he had done.
Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. Genesis 24:67
Sarah would have died three years before.
Rebecca’s Well
Rebekah’s Well is still in Haran. According to Turkish Archaeological News there is a well called Bir Yakub, about 1 km northwest of Haran. The entrance has now been protected by a concrete platform.
Would you like to see the well through the eyes of Lawrence of Arabia?
This is an extract from his diary;
“Worked at the castle after lunch : measuring etc. Then walked across to Rebekah’s well. I came in past it yesterday, resting near it half an hour, and the women as they came out to draw water came and looked at me, singing. Some offered me water from their wooden pails. The well is down steps and very deep, cold, clean water. There are camel troughs near it, possible those that Eleazar used, for such things do not soon wear out. Good water. Drank again to-day. They call it Bir Yakub, and are very proud of it. It is the only well outside the walls.”
T E Lawrence, Oriental Assembly, page 17

Links
Haran
Bible Atlas: Haran – Here the trade route from Damascus joined that from Nineveh to Carchemish. It was a seat of the worship of Sin, the moon-god, from very ancient times.
Harran: The 5000-Year-Old Ancient City in Turkey
Unearthing the Past at Ancient Harran and the Wells of Paddan-Aram
Isaac
Rebecca’s Well
Not to be confused with Jacob’s Well at his burial place at Sychem in Samaria (John 4, 5–6). The water of the well near Harran is still approached by the inclined shaft which Rebekah went down to draw water for Abraham’s servant (Gen. 24, 45), and from which Jacob rolled the stone for Rachel (Gen. 29, 10). It was photographed by Lawrence (Oriental Assembly, plate XI to the diary; see also p. 17) in its old condition; the entrance has now been protected by a concrete platform. Source: Cambridge Core, Harran
“One thing God has spoken, two things I have heard.” The Bible can be read as a personal Rhema word or a Logos word for teaching and history. This time through I am teaching from the Logos, but earlier blog posts from my book “The Kingdom, Here Be Dragons, Here Be Dreams are from a Rhema journey. Here is an earlier blog post eight years ago; The ring, and the unnamed servant.