Genesis 19:38
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.”
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“The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“as to the younger, she also hath born a son, and calleth his name Ben-Ammi: he <FI>is<Fi> father of the Beni-Ammon unto this day.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 19:38 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 2:9Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
- Deuteronomy 2:19But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
- Deuteronomy 23:3No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
- Judges 10:6And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
- 1 Samuel 11:1Soon Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
- 1 Samuel 14:47After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.
- 2 Samuel 10:1Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.
- Nehemiah 13:1At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
- Nehemiah 13:23In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
- Psalms 83:4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
- Psalms 83:9Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,
- Isaiah 11:14They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
- Zephaniah 2:8“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
- Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
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