Genesis 19:29

Mercy and compassion Salvation God's faithfulness

²⁷ Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

²⁸ He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

³⁰ Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.

³¹ One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
KJV: And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
WEB: When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
ASV: And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
DARBY: And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
BLB: And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.

ÅB: Slik gikk det til at da Gud ødela byene på sletten, da kom Gud Abraham i hu og førte Lot midt ut av ødeleggelsen - dengang han ødela de byer som Lot hadde bodd i.
OTB: Så det var at da Gud ødela byene på sletten, husket Han Abraham, og sendte Lot ut av midten av omstyrtelsen, da Han omstyrtet byene der Lot hadde bodd.
B1930: Således gikk det til at da Gud ødela byene på sletten, da kom Gud Abraham i hu og førte Lot midt ut av ødeleggelsen - dengang han ødela de byer som Lot hadde bodd i.

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Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
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Deuteronomy 9:5
It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Psalms 25:7
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
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Genesis 18:23–33
Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
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Hosea 11:8
How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
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Psalms 106:4
Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
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2 Peter 2:7
and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
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Psalms 105:42
For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
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