Genesis 8:1
Now God remembred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with him in the Arke: therefore God made a winde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceased.
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Genesis 19:29But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, God thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middes of the destruction, when he ouerthrewe the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.
Exodus 2:24Then God heard their mone, and God remembred his couenant with Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob.
Numbers 22:32And the Angel of the Lord said vnto him, Wherefore hast thou nowe smitten thine asse three times? beholde, I came out to withstande thee, because thy way is not straight before me.
Nehemiah 13:14Remember me, O my God, herein, and wipe not out my kindenes that I haue shewed on the house of my God, and on the offices thereof.
Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, O my God, that defile the Priesthoode, and the couenant of the Priesthoode, and of the Leuites.
Job 12:15Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.
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 →