Genesis 19:38

And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Ammon, saying, The son of my family. This is the father of the Ammonites to this present day.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

37And 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.

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Cross References

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.

1 Samuel 11:1And it came to pass about a month after this, that Nahash the Ammonite went up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash the Ammonite, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.

2 Samuel 10:1And it came to pass after this that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

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 →

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