Deu 2:19 I will not give you possession of the land of .. A
Jdg 11:4 the sons of A made war against
Jer 49:1 concerning the sons of A. Thus he has said
Eze 25:2 set your face towards the children of A
Zep 2:8 heard .. the reviling of the sons of A
Amón (Heb. Ammôn, possibly “people”, “paternal uncle”, “paternal clan”, “kin”, “sons of fame”; Heb. ‘í‚môn, “builder”, “builder” or “worker” , gr. amon). In personal names of Hebrew origin, ‘í‚môn means “faithful”, but when it represents the Egyptian divinity it is a transliteration of the Egyptian. ‘Imn, “the hidden one”. In Assyrian texts the name occurs as Bêt Ammanaia and Ban Ammanaia, and in stone and bronze inscriptions found near Amman as bny amwn and mn. 1. Short form of Ben-ammi, * Lot’s son by his own youngest daughter (Gen 19:38). Hence the descendants of Ben-ammi or Ammon are called Ammonites.* 2. Governor of Samaria in Ahab’s time (1Ki 22:26; 2Ch 18:25). 3. Fifteenth king of the southern kingdom of Judah. He reigned 2 years (c 642-640 BC). He was the son of Manasseh and followed the bad example of his father. His life ended in a palace revolution (2Ki 21: 19-26; 2Ch 33: 21-25). His name appears in the genealogy of Jesus traced by Matthew (1:10). 4. Ancestral name of a group of Solomon’s servants who returned from Babylonian exile with Zerubbabel (Neh 7:57-59; called sons of Ami* in Ezr 2:57). 5. Egyptian god, also called Amen, originally the local god of Thebes, the city of Upper Egypt (Jer 46:25 and Nah 3:8; JB and NBE give Thebes the name Amun of No, or No -Amón, with which it is clear that the name of the god was part of that of the city). Amun became the chief god of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom (c 2025-c 1780 BC), and from the 18th dynasty onwards (early c 1590 BC) he was identified with the sun-god Ra, and was therefore called Ra. Amun-Ra and considered as the king of the gods. Amun, with his consort Mut (“mother”) and his son Khonsu (a moon-god) formed a Theban triad. Since the animal sacred to Amun was the ram, the divinity was drawn as a ram-headed god or in the form of a man wearing a disk with 2 long feathers as a crown. Amun was also worshiped in Siwa (North Africa, west of Egypt) and was known to the Greeks as Zeus Amun. Ammonites (Heb. ammonîm or ammôn; benê Ammôn, “sons of Amón” or “countrymen”). Descendants of Ben-ammi* or Amon* 1. At the time of Moses the Ammonites had displaced what they called Zomzomeos (Rephaites, BJ), the original inhabitants of the region (Deu 2:20-23), from the headwaters of the river Jabbok. Its capital was Rabá, also called Rabath-amón (Rabá-amón), today Ammân. Map VI, D, E- 4/5. The Ammonites began hostile acts against the Israelites in the time of the judges: they attacked Israel as allies of Eglon of Moab and the 47 Amalekites (Jdg 3:12-14). During the latter part of the 12th century BC they oppressed the Israelites in Transjordan, while the Philistines oppressed those living in the western region; but they were defeated and returned to their original territory (10:6-9; 11:1-33). Later, Nahash, king of the Ammonites, attacked Jabesh Gilead, but was defeated by the newly elected King Saul, who helped the besieged city (1Sa 11:1-11). When David’s ambassadors were humiliated in the court of Hanun, successor of Nahas, a war broke out between the 2 nations. The Ammonites, although aided by various Aramean city-states, were defeated by David’s armies under the command of Joab and Abishai (2Sa_10; 1Ch 20:1-3). The Ammonites, David’s tributaries, seemed to regain some independence under Solomon, as suggested by the fact that Solomon took wives from among the Ammonite princesses (1Ki 11:1); they attempted to invade Judah in Jehoshaphat’s time (2Ch 20:1-30), but were made tributaries again. The payment of the Ammonite tribute to Judah is recorded in the times of Uzziah or Azariah (26:8) and Jotham (27:5). Afterwards they fell under the total domination of Assyria. Assyrian texts mention the Ammonites at the time of Shalmaneser III, who tells us that his king Ba’sa, son of Ruhubi, took part with his forces in the battle of Qarqar (853 BC). Tiglath-pileser III (745-727 BC) received tribute from Sanipu, of the house of Amun; Esarhaddon (681-669 BC) of Puduil; and Ashurbanipal (669-627? BC) from Aminadbi. The name Amminadbi also appears on 2 Ammonite seals written in Phoenician characters as mndb. An Ammonite inscription found on a bronze bottle discovered in 1972 at Tell Sirân, near Amman, contains the names of 3 Ammonite kings, who would have ruled between King Aminadab (I) from the time of Ashurbanipal and King Baalis from the time of Nebuchadnezzar : Aminadab (II), Hitstsel&el and Aminadab (III). After the fall of the Assyrian Empire, the Ammonites were vassals of the Babylonian king, and when Jehoiakim of Judah rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, the Ammonites were allowed to harass their western neighbors (2Ki 24:2). After the destruction of Jerusalem, the Ammonite king Baalis hired Ishmael, one of the former commanders of the army of Judah, to assassinate Gedaliah, appointed by the Babylonians as governor over the province of Judah (2Ki 25:23; Jer 40: 14; 41:1, 2). The reasons for this act are not clear. It is worth remembering that the OT prophets uttered many prophecies against the Ammonites (Jer 9:25, 26; 49:1-6; Eze 21:20; 25:1-7, Amo 1:13-15; Zep. 2:8 -eleven). In the times of the Persian Empire the territory of Ammon was, like Judea and Samaria, a province of the satrapy of “Beyond the River”. The old enmity against Israel was still active, as evidenced by the opposition of the Ammonites, along with others, to the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh 4:3, 7). At the same time, there were marriages between members of the 2 nations, which displeased leaders like Ezra and Nehemiah (Ezr 9:1, 2; Neh 13:23-31). There were military encounters between the Ammonites and Israel until the time of the Maccabees (1 Macc. 5:1-8). In 64 BC its territory was placed under Roman rule. Over time, the Ammonites were absorbed by the Arabs. Until the late 1960s very little was known about the language of the Ammonites, but the discovery of various inscriptions on stone, bronze and pottery shards gives us a much clearer picture of their language and writing (very similar to that of the Ammonites). the ancient Israelites). Nor was much known of the Ammonite religion. However, the name of their main god (Milcom and/or Moloch in the Bible) came to light in an inscription from the citadel of Haman and also on 2 Ammonite seals. Bib.: ANET 279, 282, 291, 294; Diringer, Iscrizioni, pp. 253-255; BASOR 212 (Dec. 1973):5-15; GM Landes, BA 24 (1961):66-86; GL Harding, The Antiquities of Jordan (London, 1963); N. Glueck, The Other Side of Jordan (New Haven, Connecticut, 1940).
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
No-Amun, or No, Egyptian city in southern Egypt. Their main god was Amun or Amen, god of fertility, unknown in the Old Kingdom. The Greeks called this city Thebes. Nuwe was called, that is to say, the city, or the city of Amón, reason why in the Bible it is denominated No Jr 46, 25; Ez 30, 14-15; Na 3. 8. This city developed and carried its trade beyond the first cataract. He was outside of the struggles for power that took place in Lower Egypt between Memphis, Heeliópolis and Heracleópolis. Thebes achieved, one hundred and thirty years after the death of Pepi II, that Egypt was once again under the power of a single king. Here, being the royal seat city, Amun became powerful, and the priests of Ra recognized the Theban god as a second aspect of their own, and in Egypt the god Amun-Ra or Amen-Ra prevailed. At this time grandiose temples were built in Luxor and Carnac in honor of A.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
King of Judah, son and successor of Manasseh. He was idolatrous as his progenitor. He reigned two years and died the victim of a conspiracy of his servants; the people, likewise, killed all the conspirators and raised his son as king Josías 2 R 21, 24-26; 2 Chr 33, 21-25. A. appears in the genealogy of Jesus Mt 1, 10.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
(Heb., †™ammon, a people).
1. Ben-ami, son of Lot by his youngest daughter (Gen 19:38) and father of the Ammonites.
2. Successor and son of King Manasseh and father of King Josiah. An evil king who, after two years of reigning (642-640 BC) was killed by the officials of his household (2Ki 21: 19-26; 2Ch 33: 21-25).
3. Governor of Samaria to whom Micaiah the prophet was sent by Ahab, king of Israel, because he had predicted the death of the king (1Ki 22:15-28).
4. One of Solomon’s servants (Neh 7:57-59), sometimes called Ami (Ezr 2:57).
5. Name of an Egyptian deity who appears in the OT connected with his city, No (Jer 46:25; Nah 3:8). Known better by its Greek name, Thebes. It was not 530 km. south of Cairo and is now known by the names Karnak and Luxor, famous for its huge city of the dead. During the Thebean dynasty period (from 1991 BC) Amun became the official god of the Egyptian empire. His city and priesthood came to such glory that Nahum remembered his fall as an example to the great Nineveh whose time of desolation would also surely come.
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
“God of Thebes” (Jer 46:25). Wind deity among the Egyptians. As Amun-Ra he was the supreme god of the empire.
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
(Faithful). Name of people from the OT.
1. King of Judah (15th). Son of †¢Manasseh. † œTwenty-two years old was A. when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem † (2Ki 21:19). He was wicked † œand did not walk in the way of the Lord † (2Ki 21:22). They killed him in a conspiracy. And then † œthe people of the land † put on the throne † ¢ Josiah his son (2Ki 21:24; 2Ch 33:25). The Bible does not give the reasons for his death, but some Jewish historians think that the “servants” who conspired were enemies of the pro-Assyrian policy of Manasseh and A. (Judah was then a tributary of Assyria). Whereas “the people of the land” is a reference to the great landowners, who enthroned Josiah to avoid trouble in the face of an Assyrian inquiry.
. Governor of Samaria in the time of King †¢Ahab, in charge, together with †¢Joash son of the king, of keeping the prophet †¢Micaías in prison (1 Kings 22:26-27).
. Solomon’s servant. Several of his descendants returned to Jerusalem with Nehemiah (Neh 7:59).
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
Because of their position and the relationship they have with Israel and the pilgrimages in the desert, it seems necessary here to study four nations that were relatives of Israel. The first is Amon.
The Ammonites were descendants of Lot, so they were relatives of the Israelites. They occupied the territory…