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Ammon ( Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ʻAmān; Hebrew: עַמּוֹן ʻAmmōn; Arabic: عمّون, romanized : ʻAmmūn) was an ancient Semitic-speaking kingdom occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in present-day Jordan. [1] [2] The chief city of the country was Rabbah or Rabbat Ammon, site of the ...
According to Genesis 19:30–38, the Ammonites were descended from an incestuous union between Lot and his younger daughter. At best, they were scandalous relatives of the Israelites. At one point during the period of the Judges, the Ammonites teamed up with the Amalekites to reconquer Jericho from the Israelites ( Judges 3:13 ).
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Rabbath Ammon it was called in ancient times, a place-name we might translate as the Ammonite Heights. During the Iron Age, it was the capital of the kingdom of Ammon, rival of the biblical Israelites. The remains of the ancient Ammonite acropolis are perched atop a rocky outcrop overlooking the bustling capital of modern Amman, Jordan.
Jul 12, 2023 · Who were the Ammonites? In the Bible, they are described as being descendants of Ben-ammi, who was the son of Lot (Abraham’s nephew) and Lot’s younger daughter (Genesis 19:38). The capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Ammon was Rabbah, which is located at modern-day Amman, Jordan. Burnett describes the boundaries of Ammon: “The Ammonite ...
After the fall of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, in 612 b.c., it would seem that the Ammonites moved into territory formerly held by the kingdom of Israel (cf. Jer 49:1-6; Zeph 2:8-11), in particular cities which had once belonged to the tribe of Gad—prob. Mephaath, Heshbon, Beth-peor, Beth-jeshimoth, Kiriathaim, and Medeba, and possibly all ...
AMMON, AMMONITES , ancient people. The Ammonites are one of the many tribes that emerged from the Syrio-Arabian desert during the second millennium b.c.e. and eventually established a national kingdom in Transjordan. In the Bible they are usually called " Benei ʿ Ammon " ("Children of Ammon"), while Akkadian inscriptions have them as Bīt Am ...
A History of the Ammonites; A Study of the Political Life and Material Culture of the Biblical Land of Ammon As an Autonomous State (Ca. 1300-580 B.C.E.). Johns Hopkins University, 1956. OCLC 30730272; MacDonald, Burton. Ammon, Moab, and Edom: Early States/Nations of Jordan in the Biblical Period (End of the 2nd and During the 1st Millennium B ...
