Genesis 19:38
The younger daughter had a son too, and she called him Ben-ammi. He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.
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37The older daughter had a son, and she called him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.
Cross References
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.
1 Samuel 11:1Nahash the Ammonite came with his army and besieged Jabesh-gilead. All the people of Jabesh said to him, “Make a peace treaty with us, and we will be your subjects.”
2 Samuel 10:1Sometime after this, Nahash, the Ammonite king died and his son Hanun succeeded him.
Nehemiah 13:23Around the same time I realized some Jews had married women from Ashdod, Moab, and Ammon.
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 →