Genesis 19:38 - Exposition

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi. I .e. son of my people, meaning that her child was the offspring of her own kind and blood (Rosenmüller), or the son of her relative (Kalisch), or of an unmixed race ('Speaker's Commentary'). The same is the father of the children of Ammon —an unsettled people who occupied the territory between the Yabbok and the Arnon, from which they had ejected the Rephaims or Zamzummims ( Deuteronomy 2:22 ), and in which they possessed a strong city, Rabbah (2 Samuel 40:1); in their habits more migratory and marauding than the Moabites ( Isaiah 15:1-9 ; Isaiah 16:1-14 ; Jeremiah 48:1-47 .), and in their religion worshippers of Molech, "the abomination of the Ammonites" ( 1 Kings 11:7 )— unto this day.

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