Genesis 19:38
Likewise, the younger gave birth to a son, and she called his name Ammon, that is, ‘the son of my people.’ He is the father of the Ammonites, even today.
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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,
1 Samuel 11:1And, about a month afterward, it happened that Nahash the Ammonite ascended and began to fight against Jabesh Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Consider a pact with us, and we will serve you.”
2 Samuel 10:1Now after these things, it happened that the king of the sons of Ammon died, and his son Hanun reigned after him.
Nehemiah 13:23But also in those days, I saw some Jews taking wives from the Ashdodites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites.
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 →