Scripture Post #1,485: *MOABITE & AMMONITE ORIGIN*

 

Genesis 19:

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 

37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. 

38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same isthe father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

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Due to incest, the tribe of the Moabites and the Ammonites came to be.

Context:

Gen. 19:30: "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."

V. 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:"

V. 32: "Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father."

V. 33: "And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose."

V. 34: "And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight 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."

V. 35: "And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose."

V. 36: "Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father."

V. 37: "And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. 38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same isthe father of the children of Ammon unto this day."

Moabite & Ammonite Biblical Reference:

"But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;" ~1st Kings 11:1. 

Originally Published: Thu. 10 • 06 • 16