Kejadian 19:29
Konteks19:29 So when God destroyed 1 the cities of the region, 2 God honored 3 Abraham’s request. He removed Lot 4 from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed 5 the cities Lot had lived in.
Kejadian 24:3
Konteks24:3 so that I may make you solemnly promise 6 by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire 7 a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.
[19:29] 1 tn The construction is a temporal clause comprised of the temporal indicator, an infinitive construct with a preposition, and the subjective genitive.
[19:29] 2 tn Or “of the plain”; Heb “of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.
[19:29] 3 tn Heb “remembered,” but this means more than mental recollection here. Abraham’s request (Gen 18:23-32) was that the
[19:29] sn God showed Abraham special consideration because of the covenantal relationship he had established with the patriarch. Yet the reader knows that God delivered the “righteous” (Lot’s designation in 2 Pet 2:7) before destroying their world – which is what he will do again at the end of the age.
[19:29] 4 sn God’s removal of Lot before the judgment is paradigmatic. He typically delivers the godly before destroying their world.
[19:29] 5 tn Heb “the overthrow when [he] overthrew.”
[24:3] 6 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose.