“And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.”
The younger daughter also has a son and names him Ben-Ammi, meaning son of my people. He is the father of the Ammonites of today. Ben-Ammi's descendants, the Ammonites, will be persistent thorns in Israel's side — but the God who works through Moab to produce Ruth and David is the God who works through every broken genealogy toward his purposes. The story of Genesis 19 ends not with the fire over Sodom but with two births in a cave — life persisting even through destruction and moral compromise. Romans 8:28 promises that God works all things together for good — the cave, the wine, the two sons, the two nations — all are within the scope of what is being worked together.
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