Genesis 19:37-38

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 19:30-38

Here is, I. The great trouble and distress that Lot was brought into after his deliverance, Gen. 19:30. 1. He was frightened out of Zoar, durst not dwell there; probably because he was conscious to himself that it was a refuge of his own choosing and that herein he had foolishly prescribed to God, and therefore he could not but distrust his safety in it; or because he found it as wicked as Sodom, and therefore concluded it could not long survive it; or perhaps he observed the rise and increase... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:37

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab ,.... As if it was "Meab", from the father, as Aben Ezra, and so Josephus, that is, which she had by her father; and she was so far from being ashamed that it might be known in time to come, she gave him this name. Hillerus F23 Onomastic. Sacr. p. 414. makes it to be a compound of אב and מובא , and to signify "going into", or "lying with a father", which still more notoriously points to her own action. Drusius has another... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:38

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi ,.... That is, "the son of my people", being the son of her father; which though it does not so manifestly appear in this name, as in the other, yet there is some trace of it; and she would have it be known by this, that he was not the son of a stranger, but of a relation of her own: some attribute this to her being more modest than her elder sister; but it looks as if neither of them were sensible of any crime they had been... read more

Adam Clarke

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 19:37

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 19:37

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 19:38

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi. I .e. son of my people, meaning that her child was the offspring of her own kind and blood (Rosenmüller), or the son of her relative (Kalisch), or of an unmixed race ('Speaker's Commentary'). The same is the father of the children of Ammon —an unsettled people who occupied the territory between the Yabbok and the Arnon, from which they had ejected the Rephaims or Zamzummims ( Deuteronomy 2:22 ), and in which they... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 19:1-38

- The Destruction of Sodom and Amorah9. גשׁ־<הלאה gesh-hāl'âh, “approach to a distant point,” stand back.11. סנורים sanevērı̂ym, “blindness,” affecting the mental more than the ocular vision.37. מואב mô'āb, Moab; מאב mē'āb, “from a father.” בן־עמי ben-‛amı̂y, Ben-‘ammi, “son of my people.” עמון ‛amôn, ‘Ammon, “of the people.”This chapter is the continuation and conclusion of the former. It records a part of God’s strange work - strange, because it consists in punishment, and because... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:1-38

Sodom and Gomorrah (19:1-38)Meanwhile the two messengers arrived in Sodom. Lot, knowing the danger that strangers faced in the streets of Sodom at night, welcomed them into his house (19:1-3). Although Lot did not agree with the immoral practices of Sodom (2 Peter 2:7-8), he apparently did not have the courage to oppose them. He was even prepared to allow the sexual perverts of the city to rape his daughters, in order to protect his two guests from homosexual assault. In a blinding judgment,... read more

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