This is the name of the place Ammon: An ancient nation and its capital city, enemies of Israel.
Definition
from H5971; tribal, i.e. inbred; Ammon, a son of Lot; also his posterity and their country
Traditional renderings: Ammon, Ammonites.
Traditional renderings: Ammon, Ammonites.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
106 total
- 2 Samuel 10:14 (2×)עַמּ֤וֹן; עַמּ֔וֹןWhen the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 10:19עַמּֽוֹן׃פWhen all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
- 2 Samuel 11:1עַמּ֔וֹןIn the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 12:9עַמּֽוֹן׃Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
- 2 Samuel 12:26עַמּ֑וֹןMeanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.
- 2 Samuel 12:31עַמּ֑וֹןDavid brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 17:27עַמּ֗וֹןWhen David came to Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
- 1 Kings 11:7עַמּֽוֹן׃At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 1 Kings 11:33עַמּ֑וֹןFor they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
- 2 Kings 23:13עַמּ֑וֹןThe king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 2 Kings 24:2עַמּ֔וֹןAnd the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
- 1 Chronicles 18:11עַמּ֔וֹן…and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had carried off from all these nations—from Edom and Moab, and from the Ammonites, Philistines, and Amalekites.
- 1 Chronicles 19:1עַמּ֑וֹןSome time later, Nahash king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son.
- 1 Chronicles 19:2עַמּ֛וֹןAnd David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,
- 1 Chronicles 19:3עַמּ֜וֹן…the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Have not his servants come to you to explore the land, spy it out, and overthrow it?”
- 1 Chronicles 19:6 (2×)עַמּ֔וֹן; עַמּ֜וֹןWhen the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
- 1 Chronicles 19:7עַמּ֗וֹןSo they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba while the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and marched out for battle.
- 1 Chronicles 19:9עַמּ֔וֹןThe Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance to the city, while the kings who had come stayed by themselves in the open country.
- 1 Chronicles 19:11עַמּֽוֹן׃And he placed the rest of the troops under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.
- 1 Chronicles 19:12עַמּ֛וֹן“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.
- 1 Chronicles 19:15עַמּ֤וֹןWhen the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Joab’s brother Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab went back to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 19:19עַמּ֖וֹןWhen Hadadezer’s subjects saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Arameans were unwilling to help the Ammonites anymore.
- 1 Chronicles 20:1עַמּ֗וֹןIn the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.
- 1 Chronicles 20:3עַמּ֑וֹןDavid brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 20:1עַמּ֜וֹןAfter this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.
- 2 Chronicles 20:10עַמּ֨וֹן · of AmmonAnd now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt. So Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.
- 2 Chronicles 20:22עַמּ֜וֹןThe moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.
- 2 Chronicles 20:23עַמּ֧וֹןThe Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had finished off the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
- 2 Chronicles 27:5 (3×)עַמּוֹן֮; עַמּ֜וֹן; עַמּ֔וֹןסJotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. They paid him the same in the second and third years.
- Psalm 83:7וְ֭עַמּוֹן · Ammon…of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
- Isaiah 11:14עַמּ֖וֹןThey will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
- Jeremiah 9:26עַמּוֹן֙ · AmmonEgypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
- Jeremiah 25:21עַמּֽוֹן׃Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;
- Jeremiah 27:3עַמּ֔וֹןSend word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
- Jeremiah 40:11עַמּ֨וֹןWhen all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them,
- Jeremiah 40:14עַמּ֗וֹן…and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.
- Jeremiah 41:10עַמּֽוֹן׃סThen Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people of Mizpah—the daughters of the king along with all the others who remained in Mizpah—over whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set off to cross over to the Ammonites.
- Jeremiah 41:15עַמּֽוֹן׃סBut Ishmael son of Nethaniah and eight of his men escaped from Johanan and went to the Ammonites.
- Jeremiah 49:1עַמּ֗וֹןConcerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
- Jeremiah 49:2עַמּ֜וֹןTherefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 49:6עַמּ֖וֹןYet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 21:20עַמּ֑וֹןMark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 21:28עַמּ֖וֹןNow prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—
- Ezekiel 25:2עַמּ֑וֹן“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
- Ezekiel 25:3עַמּ֔וֹןTell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,
- Ezekiel 25:5עַמּ֖וֹן · AmmonI will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’