1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
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And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
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.
Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Here is, I. An act of God’s grace: God remembered Noah and every living thing . This is an expression after the manner of men; for not any of his creatures (Luke 12:6), much less any of his people, are forgotten of God, Isa. 49:15 , 16 . But, 1. The whole race of mankind, except Noah and his family, was now extinguished, and driven into the land of forgetfulness, to be remembered no more; so that…
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