Genesis 19:37
And the elder gave birth to a son, and she called his name Moab. He is the father of the Moabites, even to the present day.
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36Therefore, the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father.
Cross References
Numbers 22:1And they set out and made camp in the plains of Moab, across the Jordan, where Jericho is situated.
Deuteronomy 2:9And the Lord said to me: ‘You should not fight against the Moabites, nor should you go to battle against them. For I will not give to you anything from their land, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot as a possession.’
Deuteronomy 23:3The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation, shall not enter into the church of the Lord forever,
Ruth 4:10And Ruth, the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have taken in marriage so as to raise up the name of the deceased in his posterity, so that his name will not be cut off from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.”
2 Samuel 8:1Now after these things, it happened that David struck the Philistines, and he humbled them. And David took the bridle of tribute from the hand of the Philistines.
Psalms 83:9O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Pay attention, O God of Jacob.
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 →