Genesis 19:38

And the less daughter childed a son, and called his name Benammi, that is, The son of my people; he is the father of (the) men of Ammon till to [this] day.

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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 more daughter childed a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of (the) men of Moab unto this present day.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:9And the Lord said to me, Fight thou not against Moabites, neither begin thou battle against them; for I shall not give to thee anything of their land, for I have given Ar into possession to the sons of Lot (or for I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession).

Deuteronomy 23:3Ammonites and Moabites, yea after the tenth generation, shall not enter into the church of the Lord (into) without end; (The Ammonites and the Moabites, even after the tenth generation, shall not be part of the Lord’s congregation, yea, forevermore;)

1 Samuel 11:1And it was done as after a month, Nahash of Ammon went up, and began to fight against Jabesh of Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Have thou us bound in peace (or Make thou a covenant, or a bond of peace, with us), and we shall serve thee.

2 Samuel 10:1Forsooth it was done after these things, that Nahash, [the] king of the sons of Ammon, died; and Hanun, his son, reigned for him, (or and his son Hanun reigned in his place).

Nehemiah 13:23But also in those days I saw Jews wedding wives, women of Ashdod, and women of Ammonites, and women of Moabites.

Psalms 83:9Make thou to them as to Midian, and Sisera; as to Jabin, in the strand of Kison. (Do thou to them like thou did to the Midianites, and to Sisera; and to Jabin, at the Kishon Stream.)

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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