^19:29So when God destroyed⁸⁰ the cities of the region,⁸¹ God honored⁸² Abraham’s request. He removed Lot⁸³ from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed⁸⁴ the cities Lot had lived in.

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Footnotes

80 The construction is a temporal clause comprised of the temporal indicator, an infinitive construct with a preposition, and the subjective genitive.
81 Or “of the plain”; Heb “of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.
82 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. 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.
83 God’s removal of Lot before the judgment is paradigmatic. He typically delivers the godly before destroying their world.
84 Heb “the overthrow when [he] overthrew.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when he demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

NLTNew Living Translation

But God had listened to Abraham’s request and kept Lot safe, removing him from the disaster that engulfed the cities on the plain.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

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