Genesis 19:37
The older daughter had a son, and she called him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.
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36This is how both Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.
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Numbers 22:1The Israelites moved on and camped on the plains of Moab east of the Jordan, opposite Jericho.
Deuteronomy 2:9Then the Lord told me, “Don't cause the Moabites any trouble or fight them, for I'm not going to give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot and it belongs to them.”
Deuteronomy 23:3No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants are allowed to enter the Lord's sanctuary, up to the tenth generation.
Ruth 4:10I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, as my wife. By having children who may inherit his property his name will be kept alive in his family and in his home town. You are witnesses of this today.”
2 Samuel 8:1Sometime after this, David attacked and subdued the Philistines, taking Metheg-ammah from the them.
Psalms 83:9Do to them what you did to Midian, what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
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 →