19:29 So when God destroyed 1 the cities of the region, 2 God honored 3 Abraham’s request. He removed Lot 4 from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed 5 the cities Lot had lived in.
19:30 Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
1 tn The construction is a temporal clause comprised of the temporal indicator, an infinitive construct with a preposition, and the subjective genitive.
2 tn Or “of the plain”; Heb “of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.
3 tn Heb “remembered,” but this means more than mental recollection here. Abraham’s request (Gen 18:23-32) was that the
sn 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.
4 sn God’s removal of Lot before the judgment is paradigmatic. He typically delivers the godly before destroying their world.
5 tn Heb “the overthrow when [he] overthrew.”