Genesis 19:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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 infamous people, branded, as their brethren also the Ammonites were, with characters of God's displeasure.

Genesis 19:37

37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.