Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Genesis 19:37
And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab (from father); the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab (from father); the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
Verse 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_....
- The Destruction of Sodom and Amorah 9. גשׁ־הלאה gesh-hāl'âh, “approach to a distant point,” stand back. 11. סנורים _san__e__vērı̂ym_, “blindness,” affecting the mental more than the ocular visi...
CHAPTER 19 THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH _ 1. The angels visit (Genesis 19:1)_ 2. Lot and the Sodomites (Genesis 19:6) 3. The destruction of Sodom announced (Genesis 19:12) 4. Lot and his
Lot's daughters, fearing that, with the exception of their father and themselves, mankind has perished, feel that upon them rests the responsibility of perpetuating the race. Their father alone is ava...
GENESIS 12:1 TO GENESIS 25:18. THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. In this section the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main sources...
MOAB. Hebrew. _from. father._...
_Moab_ A play on the word "Moab," on account of its general assonance with the Heb. _mê-âb_= "from a father"; an instance of derivation by folk-etymology....
AND CALLED HIS NAME MOAB, THE FATHER OF THE MOABITES— This addition, _the father of the Moabites,_ and the same in the next verse, _father of the children of Ammon,_ plainly points out the design of M...
8. _Lot's Last End_ (Genesis 19:30-38) 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...
_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:_ The first-born said unto the younger. The first...
19:37 Moab. (b-11) From the father....
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 1. The visit of the two angels (who are 'the men' of Genesis 18) may be regarded as the final test of Sodom. If they were hospitably received and honourably...
In later years, the Moabites were an important nation. Their country was called Moab. It was east of the Salt Sea. The Ammonites lived east of the river Jordan. Both the Moabites and the Ammonites wer...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 19 TWO *ANGELS GO TO SODOM V1 The two *angels reached Sodom in the evening. Lot sat at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he stood up. He went...
MOAB... BEN-AMMI. — Both these names suggest an incestuous origin, but the latter in a less repulsive way. “Son of my people” means one born of intercourse with her own kin and family. It is a strikin...
וַ תֵּ֤לֶד הַ בְּכִירָה֙ בֵּ֔ן וַ תִּקְרָ֥א
DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN Genesis 19:1 WHILE Abraham was pleading with the Lord the angels were pursuing their way to Sodom. And in doing so they apparently observed the laws of those hu...
Here the story of the visit of Jehovah and the angels is continued. Here we see the two angels coming to Lot. By this time Lot had attained to a position of eminence in Sodom. The phrase, "sitting in...
LOT AND HIS FAMILY Any doubt one has about God keeping wicked under his protective care is removed by this story. The angels delivered Lot, his wife and their two daughters safely from the city before...
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the (s) Moabites unto this day. (s) Who as they were born in most horrible incest, so were they and their posterity...
_Elder. She first proposes: she is not ashamed to call her child Moab, "from father." The younger is rather more modest, and calls her son Ammon, "my people," not born of the Sodomites. Many reasons m...
And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. Awful effects of sin! Those nations were the sworn foes of the Lord's...
We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...
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 exhibite...
Lot, in the following chapter, because of his connection with the heavenly man, depositary of God's counsels and wisdom, and intercessor, himself down in the plain of this world, which he had chosen,...
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 ash...
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day. Ver. 37. _Called his name Moab._] That is, the begotten of my father: so, Benammi; that...
1 Lot entertaineth two Angels. 4 The vicious Sodomites are striken with blindnesse. 12 Lot is sent for safety into the mountaines. 18 Hee obtaineth leaue to goe into Zoar. 24 Sodome and Gomorrah a...
See Genesis 18:1 ff for the passage quote with footnotes. 3. _The entrance and sojourn of the two angels in Sodom, and the completed manifestation of its corruption in opposition to the better conduct...
SODOM'S WICKEDNESS EXPOSED Not in the heat of the day, but in the evening, the two angels arrived at Sodom. Lot was sitting in the gate, the place of a judge. He was a believer making an effort to con...
30-38 See the peril of security. Lot, who kept chaste in Sodom, and was a mourner for the wickedness of the place, and a witness against it, when in the mountain, alone, and, as he thought, out of th...
_ 1807_ CALLED HIS NAME MOAB, i.e. _of my father, _ begotten upon me by my father. So she had learned from her neighbours _to declare her sin as Sodom,_ ISAIAH 3:9. THE MOABITES were a mischievous and...
There are two methods which the Lord graciously adopts, in order to draw the heart away from this present world. The first is, by setting before it the attractiveness and stability of "things above....
Genesis 19:37 firstborn H1067 bore H3205 (H8799) son H1121 called H7121 (H8799) name H8034 Moab H4124 he...
LOT'S SUBSEQUENT CAREER (GENESIS 19:30). By choosing the well-watered Circle of Jordan with little regard for the consequences and the fact that it was outside the land chosen by Yahweh for His people...
Genesis 19 Notice: I. Sodom's sinfulness. Her sins were committed amidst an unbounded flush of prosperity; they were committed amidst scenes of much natural loveliness, Nature being outraged before...
CONTENTS: Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot's backsliding and escape. CHARACTERS: Angels, Lot and family, Abraham, Moab, Benammi. CONCLUSION: No Christian can find his pleasure and profit in th...
Genesis 19:1. _Lot sat in the gate of Sodom,_ as a magistrate, no doubt, for the wicked accuse him of making himself a judge or elder. The main gate of a city was the usual place of hearing causes, an...
_And they made their father drink wine_ THE LESSONS OF LOT’S DISHONOUR I. THAT SAINTS WHO HAVE BEEN THE SUBJECTS OF EXTRAORDINARY MERCY MAY YET FALL INTO SIN. II. THAT IT IS DIFFICULT, EVEN FOR THE...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 19:31 Lot’s daughters had intercourse with him on consecutive nights, but he was unaware of it. This unseemly episode marked the origin of the MOABITES and AMMONITES....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 19:37. Called his name Moab.] “_From the father_,” or “_seed of the father._” GENESIS 19:38. BEN-AMMI. “_Son of my people_.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— G
EXPOSITION GENESIS 19:29 AND IT CAME TO PASS—not a pluperfect (Rosenmüller), as if a direct continuation of the preceding narrative, but a preterit, being the commencement of a new subdivision of the...
Chapter nineteen of the book of Genesis deals with the destruction of the city of Sodom. The Lord came to Abraham and informed him of the fact that because of the wickedness of Sodom, it was necessary...
A.M. 2108. B.C. 1896. Moab. Moabites. Numbers 21:29 Numbers 22:1 Numbers 24:1 Deuteronomy 2:9...
Does the Bible condone incest? PROBLEM: Incest is denounced in emphatic terms in many biblical passages (cf. Leviticus 18:6; Leviticus 20:17). In fact, the Lord declared, “Cursed is the one who lies w...