Welcome to Part 2 of this week's podcast.

Okay, what do we do next?

Well, you know, this next story is one that we really don't want to share with children.

About Lawton is two daughters, and but for one thing, it's trying to explain how the people of the Ammonites and the Moabites come to be.

And I've sometimes wondered if it wasn't just a little bit of a dig at the Moabites and the Ammonites on the part of the Israelites.

You know, where you come from, here's your story because you can read Moab as sounding something like from father and Benami, which becomes the Ammonites, which is still preserved by the way in the name of the capital of Jordan, Ammon.

Their name is still there.

Oh, yeah.

You can get that name from Benami, son of my people.

It's a kind of an awful story.

So the idea is the writer is trying to take a dig at his current neighbors who he doesn't like saying, look where you came from.

I think so.

Here's, you know, your relatives, but your enemies, and here's the really disreputable story of where you come from.

Yeah.

It's like if you really want to get in a dig and a member of the Church of England or the Episcopal Church, bring up Henry VIII and his wife.

No, it's not quite the highest spiritual level for the origin of the Church.

And in the future, the Moabites, the Ammonites caused problems.

Yeah, I've wondered where this comes from, but that makes sense.

The current author looking way back is saying, hey, I have a chance here to think of the Moabites.

The Ammonites were basically up around where Ammon is today.

So directly across from Jerusalem on the Jordanian side of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea Valley, and then a little bit to the south are the Moabites.

We are roughly where Petrae is.

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