Genesis 30:22

30:22 Then God took note of ¹  Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant. ² 

Genesis 42:9

42:9 Then Joseph remembered ³  the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!” ⁴ 

Genesis 8:1

8:1 But God remembered ⁵  Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over ⁶  the earth and the waters receded.

Genesis 19:29

19:29 So when God destroyed ⁷  the cities of the region, ⁸  God honored ⁹  Abraham’s request. He removed Lot ¹⁰  from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed ¹¹  the cities Lot had lived in.

[30:22]  ¹ tn Heb “remembered.”

[30:22]  ² tn Heb “and God listened to her and opened up her womb.” Since “God” is the subject of the previous clause, the noun has been replaced by the pronoun “he” in the translation for stylistic reasons

[42:9]  ³ sn You are spies. Joseph wanted to see how his brothers would react if they were accused of spying.

[42:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “to see the nakedness of the land you have come.”

[8:1]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew word translated “remembered” often carries the sense of acting in accordance with what is remembered, i.e., fulfilling covenant promises (see B. S. Childs, Memory and Tradition in Israel [SBT], especially p. 34).

[8:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “to pass over.”

[19:29]  ⁷ tn The construction is a temporal clause comprised of the temporal indicator, an infinitive construct with a preposition, and the subjective genitive.

[19:29]  ⁸ tn Or “of the plain”; Heb “of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[19:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “remembered,” but this means more than mental recollection here. Abraham’s request (Gen 18:23-32) was that the Lord not destroy the righteous with the wicked. While the requisite minimum number of righteous people (ten, v. 32) needed for God to spare the cities was not found, God nevertheless rescued the righteous before destroying the wicked.

[19:29]  ¹⁰ sn God’s removal of Lot before the judgment is paradigmatic. He typically delivers the godly before destroying their world.

[19:29]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the overthrow when [he] overthrew.”