Genesis 19:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Called his name Ben-ammi, i.e. the son of my people, or kindred, not of the cursed race of the Sodomites, where I was to be married. This is something more modest than the other in the name she gives, but both impudently glorying in their sin and shame, of which they should have bitterly repented.

Genesis 19:38

38 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.