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 guilty of, but rather thought
it a commendable action, at least that it was excusable:
the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this
day;
a people that lived near their brethren the Moabites, and were
both enemies to the people of God; they quickly falling into
idolatry, and whose names we often meet with in the sacred
writings; and of these two sons, Josephus says F24, the
one begat the Moabites, being still a great nation, and the other
the Ammonites, and both inhabit Coelesyria; they are both called
the children of Lot, ( Psalms 83:8 ) . After
this we hear no more of Lot in this history; and it is
remarkable, that there never was, as we know of, any town or city
that had in it any, trace of his name; but we are not from hence
to conclude that he was a wicked man, whose memory perished with
him; for mention is made of him in the New Testament, where he
has a very honourable character, and is called "just Lot", (
2 Peter 2:7 )
.