Genesis 19:37

Overview - Genesis 19
Lot entertains two angels.
The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness.
12 Lot is warned, and in vain warns his sons-in-law.
15 He is directed to flee with his family to the mountains, but obtains leave to go into Zoar.
24 Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed.
26 Lot's wife becomes a pillar of salt.
29 Lot dwells in a cave.
31 The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon.
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Genesis 19:37  (King James Version)
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
 


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M. 2108. B.C. 1896. Moab.
This name is generally interpreted of the father; from {mo,} of, and {av,} a father.

Moabites
Numbers 21:29 ; 22:1-41 24:1-25 Deuteronomy 2:9 Deuteronomy 2:19 ; 23:3 Judges 3:1-31 ; Ruth 4:10
2 Samuel 8:1-18 ; 2 Kings 3:1-27