Genesis 19:38
The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
37The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:9The LORD said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
Deuteronomy 23:3An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into the LORD’s assembly forever,
1 Samuel 11:1Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”
2 Samuel 10:1After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
Nehemiah 13:23In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
Psalms 83:9Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
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 →