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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.
RABBATH-AMMONRABBATH-AMMON (Rabbah ; Heb. רַבַּת בִּנֵי עַמּוֹן ,רַבָּה), the capital of the Ammonites, present-day Amman, capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of *Jordan. The earliest settlement, dating from the Chalcolithic period until the end of the early Bronze Age (c. 2200 b.c.e.), was centered on a sacred rock on the ...
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Ancient Jewish History: The Ammonites. After a period of nomadic existence, the Ammonites settled north of the Moabite kingdom in the 13th century BCE and founded their capital city Rabbath Ammon (present day Amman). Like their neighbors to the south, the Ammonites often attacked the newly settled Jewish empire in Canaan.
1. Rudolph H. Dornemann, “The Beginning of the Iron Age in Transjordan,” Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 1 (1982), pp. 135–140; F. Zayadine, J.-B. Humbert and M. Najjar, “The 1988 Excavations on the Citadel of Amman—Lower Terrace, Area A,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 33 (1989), pp. 357–363 and plates 50–52; Ahmed Momani and Anthi ...
Rabbath. Or RABBATH-AMMON, afterwards called Philadelphia, the capital of the Ammonites, was situated near the southern source of the jabbok, some twenty-two miles beyond Jordan. It was famous even in the time Moses, De 3:11 Joshua 13:25. When David declared war against the Ammonites, his general, Joab, laid siege to Rabbath-Ammon, where Uriah ...
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 ...
Rabbath Ammon. There is documentation of a settlement in the area as early as 8,500 years ago, and the city served as the capital of the Ammonites in the second half of the second millennium BC. It was mentioned several times in the Bible and was known as “Rabbat Bnei Ammon” after Ben Ami, the son of Lot and his daughter, the father of the ...
