Genesis 19:37
And the firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab. The same is the father of the Moabites to this day.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
36Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
Cross References
Numbers 22:1And the sons of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
Deuteronomy 2:9And LORD said to me, Do not vex Moab, neither contend with them in battle, for I will not give thee of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession.
Deuteronomy 23:3An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of LORD, even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter into the assembly of LORD forever,
Ruth 4:10Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his plac
2 Samuel 8:1And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them. And David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
Psalms 83:9Do thou to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:31-38
Lot's Disgrace. ( b. c. 1898.) 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 33 And they made their father drink wine that… Read the whole commentary →