Travellers: Generally Halted at Wells or Streams

As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.

So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.

He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.

Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.

When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,

Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.