“And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.”
He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water. The servant's positioning — at the well, at the time when women come to draw water — is tactical but also providential. The well is the intersection point in ancient Near Eastern culture where strangers meet and hospitality begins. John 4:6 records Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at a well — the well of encounter is a consistent biblical motif. The application: positioning yourself at the place where the right encounter is likely to happen is not manipulation — it is the practical cooperation with God's provision.
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