Genesis 19:36

³⁵So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.³⁶Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. ³⁷The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

Summary

This verse recounts the aftermath of Lot's daughters getting him drunk and having sexual relations with him to conceive children. The resulting offspring were the Moabites and Ammonites, who became the ancestors of the nations of Moab and Ammon. This account serves as a cautionary tale, illustrating the consequences of acting out of desperation and taking matters into one's own hands instead of trusting in God. It also highlights the importance of upholding moral standards and the destructive nature of sin when left unchecked.

Commentary

John Gill
Tyndale

John Gill Bible Commentary

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 (x), 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, Psa 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", Pe2 2:7. (x) Antiqu. l. 1. c. 11. sect. 5. Next: Genesis Chapter 20