Genesis 19:32-38

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:37

Called his name Moab - This name is generally interpreted of the father, or, according to Calmet, מואב Moab , the waters of the father. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:38

Ben-ammi - עמי בן Ben - ammi , the son of my people. Both these names seem to justify the view taken of this subject above, viz., that it was merely to preserve the family that the daughters of Lot made use of the above expedient; and hence we do not find that they ever attempted to repeat it, which, had it been done for any other purpose, they certainly would not have failed to do. On this subject Origen, in his fifth homily on Genesis, has these remarkable words: Ubi hic libidinis... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:33

Verse 33 33.And he perceived not. Though Lot not sinned knowingly, yet, because his drunkenness was the cause of his sin, his guilt is diminished, but not annulled. Without doubt the Lord has chastised his dissatisfaction in this manner. This is something rare and strange, that his senses are so under influence of the wine, that he, like a dead man pours out his lust. Therefore I assume that he not so much is fuddled through the wine, but that his excessiveness is beat by God through the spirit... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:35

Verse 35 35.And the younger arose, and lay with him. This place teaches us how dangerous it is, to fall in the snares of satan. For, who once is caught therein, involves himself deeper and deeper in it. It is sure that Lot has been a modest man, but either, that the daughters have overtaken him while he was overcome with sadness, or that he allured by any other means to excessive drinking, once being decayed to excessiveness, he is again deceived the next day. We must therefore diligently... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:37

Verse 37 37.And the firstborn bare. This was a terrible blindness, that the daughters of Lot, shaking off all feeling of shame, raised up a memorial of their virtue, and through an eternal sign have exhibited their dishonor before their posterity. To their sons, or better, two nation in their persons, they give names, whence everybody can know that it was a family, originating from adultery and unchaste intercourse. The eldest boasts that she had obtained her son from her father, the other that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 19:32

Come, let us make our father drink wine ,—either, therefore, Lot had not left Sodom totally unprovided (Inglis), or some little time had elapsed after his escaping to the mountain cave, since his daughters are provided with this intoxicating beverage— and we will He with him. Considering the town in which the daughters of Lot had been reared, the mother of whom they were the offspring, and the example they had received from their father ( Genesis 19:8 ), "we can understand, though we... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 19:33

And they made their father drink wine that night —which was sinful both in them and him ( vide Isaiah 5:11 ; Proverbs 20:1 ; Habakkuk 2:15 )— and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. That it was his own daughter quacum concumberet (Rosenmüller), being so intoxicated that he could not discern who it was to whom he had approached, or even what he was doing (Keil). The reading, "when he lay down and when he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 19:34

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yester night with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 19:35

And they made their father drink wine that night also . The facility with which Lot allowed himself to be inebriated by his daughters Clericus regards as a sign that before this the old man had been accustomed to over-indulgence in wine. The inference, however, of Kalisch, that because "Lot's excess in the enjoyment of wine is no more blamed than it was in Noah," "the narrative exempts him from all serious reproach," can scarcely be admitted. And the younger arose, and lay with him ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 19:37

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab — Meab, from the father, alluding to his incestuous origin; though Mo (water, an Arabic euphemism for the semen virile ) and ab has been advanced as a more correct derivation (Rosenmüller). The same is the father of the Moabites—who originally inhabited the country northeast of the Dead Sea, between the Jabbok and the Arnon ( Deuteronomy 2:20 ), but were afterwards driven by the Amorites south of the Arnou—unto this day. This... read more

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