Genesis 19:38
Good News Translation
The younger daughter also had a son, whom she named Benammi. He was the ancestor of the present-day Ammonites.

New Revised Standard Version
The younger also bore a son and named him Ben-ammi; he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day.

Contemporary English Version
The younger daughter named her son Benammi, and he is the ancestor of the Ammonites.

New American Bible
The younger one, too, gave birth to a son, and she named him Ammon, saying, “The son of my kin.” He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.

Ben-ammi.

children.

Deuteronomy 2:9,19 And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession. . . .

Deuteronomy 23:3 The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

Judges 10:6-18 But the children of Israel, adding new sins to their old ones, did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served idols, Baalim and Astaroth, and the gods of Syria, and of Sidon, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines: and they left the Lord, and did not serve him. . . .

Judges 11:1-40 There was at that time Jephte, the Galaadite, a most valiant man, and a warrior, the son of a woman that was a harlot, and his father was Galaad. . . .

1 Samuel 11:1-15 And it came to pass about a month after this, that Naas, the Ammonite, came up, and began to fight against Jabes Galaad. And all the men of Jabes said to Naas: Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. . . .

2 Samuel 10:1-19 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanon his son reigned in his stead. . . .

Nehemiah 13:1-3,23-28 And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever: . . .

Psalm 83:4-8 They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. . . .

Isaiah 11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines by the sea, they together shall spoil the children of the east: Edom, till Moab shall be under the rule of their hand, and the children of Ammon shall be obedient.

Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.

Context
Lot and His Daughters
37And the elder bore a son, and she called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day. 38The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:19
And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of Ammon, take heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.

Genesis 20:1
Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

Genesis 19:37
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