Genesis 19:37
And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab, saying, He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
36And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father.
Cross References
Numbers 22:1And the children of Israel departed, and encamped on the west of Moab by Jordan toward Jericho.
Deuteronomy 2:9And the Lord said to me, Do not ye quarrel with the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them; for I will not give you of their land for an inheritance, for I have given Ar to the children of Lot to inherit.
Deuteronomy 23:3One born of a harlot shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.
Ruth 4:10Moreover I have bought for myself for a wife Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance; so the name of the dead shall not be destroyed from among his brethren, and from the tribe of his people: ye are this day witnesses.
2 Samuel 8:1And it came to pass after this, that David smote the Philistines, and put them to flight, and David took the tribute from out of the hand of the Philistines.
Psalms 83:9O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: 1 Hearken, O God of Jacob. Pause. 1
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 →