Genesis 19:38

The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

In Context

37The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:9Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

Deuteronomy 23:3No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.

1 Samuel 11:1Soon Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”

2 Samuel 10:1Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.

Nehemiah 13:23In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Psalms 83:9Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and 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 →

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