Lopukhin's explanatory Bible. OLD TESTAMENT.GENESIS
[232] It will cover the face of the earth so that it will not be possible to see the earth, and it will eat from you what remains [on the earth] that has survived from the hail; And he shall devour all the trees that are in your field;
[233] And all [the kings] of the earth sought to see Solomon, that they might hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
[234] And in Jerusalem there were Jews, pious men, of every nation under heaven.
[235] And it came to pass, when God was destroying [all] the cities of the country round about, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of destruction, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
[236] And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
[237] Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel [Jacob], Thy servants, to whom Thou didst swear by Thyself, saying, "Multiplying your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land of which I have spoken, I will give unto your seed, and they shall possess [it] for ever."
[238] Remember, O Lord, David and all his contrition...
[239] And Moses stretched out his rod against the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land, which lasted all that day and all night. Morning came, and the east wind brought locusts... And the Lord raised up a very strong wind from the opposite side, and it carried the locusts and threw them into the Red Sea: there was not a single locust left in all the land of Egypt.
[240] And Moses stretched out his hand upon the sea, and the Lord drove the sea with a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters parted.
[241] And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth...
[242] And he called his name Noah, saying, "He will comfort us in our work, and in the labor of our hands in tilling the land, which the Lord [God] has cursed."
[243] I have received everything, and I am in abundance; I am pleased to have received from Epaphroditus, which you sent as fragrant incense, a pleasing sacrifice pleasing to God.
[244] And when he took the book, then the four beasts and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
[245] And another angel came, and stood before the altar, holding a golden censer; And a great quantity of incense was given to him, that with the prayers of all the saints he might lay it on the golden altar which is before the throne. And the smoke of incense ascended with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God.