Genesis 19:37
The firstborn gave birth to a son, and named him Moab. He became the ancestor of the Moabites of today.
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36So both the daughters of Lot were pregnant by their father.
Cross References
Numbers 22:1The people of Israel traveled on until they camped in the plains of Moab near Jericho, on the other side of the Jordan River from the city.
Deuteronomy 2:9Yahweh said to me, 'Do not trouble Moab, and do not fight with them in battle. For I will not give you his land for your own possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot, for their possession.'
Deuteronomy 23:3An Ammonite or a Moabite may not belong to the assembly of Yahweh; as far as to the tenth generation of his descendants, none of them may belong to the assembly of Yahweh.
Ruth 4:10Also Ruth the Moabite woman, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired to be my wife, in order that I might raise up the name of the dead man on his inheritance, so that his name will not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. Today you are witnesses!”
2 Samuel 8:1After this it came about that David attacked the Philistines and defeated them. So David took Metheg Ammah from the control of the Philistines.
Psalms 83:9Do to them as you did to Midian, 1 as you did to Sisera and to Jabin at the Kishon River. 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 →