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.
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Interpretation
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 the way of temptation, is shamefully overtaken.
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This thought runs through Genesis 19:35-38.
Glossary
- Ammon Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Amman.