Genesis 8:1
Then God remembered Noah, and all living things, and all the cattle, which were with him in the ark, and he brought a wind across the earth, and the waters were diminished.
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Genesis 19:29For when God overthrew the cities of that region, remembering Abraham, he freed Lot from the overthrow of the cities, in which he had dwelt.
Exodus 2:24And he heard their groaning, and he also remembered the covenant which he formed with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Numbers 22:32And the Angel said to him: “Why did you beat your donkey three times? I have come to be an adversary to you, because your way is perverse and contrary to me.
Nehemiah 13:14Remember me, O my God, because of this, and may you not wipe away my acts of compassion, which I have done for the house of my God and for his ceremonies.
Nehemiah 13:29O Lord, my God, remember against those who defile the priesthood and the law of the priests and the Levites!
Job 12:15If he restrains the waters, everything will dry up; and if he sends them forth, they will subdue the land.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:1
In the close of the foregoing chapter we left the world in ruins and the church in straits; but in this chapter we have the repair of the one and the enlargement of the other. Now the scene alters, and another face of things begins to be presented to us, and the brighter side of that cloud which there appeared so black and dark; for, though God contend long, he will not contend for ever, nor be always wrath. We have here, I. The earth made anew, by the recess of the waters, and the appearing of the dry land, now a… Read the whole commentary →