Ammon

Certainty

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31.955° N, 35.934° E

Ammon, Ammonites· Rabbah

• עַמּוֹן·Ammon
• עַמּוֹנִי·Ammon
• רַבָּה·Rabbahmeans “great; powerful; contentious”
• רַבַּת·Rabbath

Includes 5 verses that refer to Ammon without naming it.

1. Genesis 19:38עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.
2. Numbers 21:24עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.
3. Deuteronomy 2:19עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
4. Deuteronomy 2:20עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
   (That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.
5. Deuteronomy 2:21Referred to, not named
   They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,
6. Deuteronomy 2:37עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.
7. Deuteronomy 3:11עַמּוֹן · Ammon; רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
   (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
8. Deuteronomy 3:16עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   …and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.
9. Deuteronomy 23:3עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
   No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
10. Deuteronomy 23:4Referred to, not named
    For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
11. Deuteronomy 23:6Referred to, not named
    You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.
12. Joshua 12:2עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,
13. Joshua 13:10עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    …and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;
14. Joshua 13:25עַמּוֹן · Ammon; רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;
15. Joshua 15:60רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah—two cities, along with their villages.
16. Judges 3:13עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    After enlisting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join forces with him, Eglon attacked and defeated Israel, taking possession of the City of Palms.
17. Judges 10:6עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
18. Judges 10:7עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites,
19. Judges 10:9עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.
20. Judges 10:11עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,
21. Judges 10:17עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Then the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.
22. Judges 10:18עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    And the rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever will launch the attack against the Ammonites will be the head of all who live in Gilead.”
23. Judges 11:4עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Some time later, when the Ammonites fought against Israel
24. Judges 11:5עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    …and made war with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.
25. Judges 11:6עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    “Come,” they said, “be our commander, so that we can fight against the Ammonites.”
26. Judges 11:8עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    They answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”
27. Judges 11:9עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    But Jephthah asked them, “If you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, will I really be your leader?”
28. Judges 11:12עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?”
29. Judges 11:13עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”
30. Judges 11:14עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites
31. Judges 11:15עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    …to tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.
32. Judges 11:27עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    I have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
33. Judges 11:28עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.
34. Judges 11:29עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, then through Mizpah of Gilead. And from there he advanced against the Ammonites.
35. Judges 11:30עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,
36. Judges 11:31עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    …then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
37. Judges 11:32עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his hand.
38. Judges 11:33עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    With a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.
39. Judges 11:36עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
40. Judges 12:1עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”
41. Judges 12:2עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.
42. Judges 12:3עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”
43. 1 Samuel 11:1עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
44. 1 Samuel 11:2עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”
45. 1 Samuel 11:11עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the survivors were so scattered that no two of them were left together.
46. 1 Samuel 12:12עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.
47. 1 Samuel 14:47עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.
48. 2 Samuel 8:12עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    …from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites and Philistines and Amalekites, and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
49. 2 Samuel 10:1עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.
50. 2 Samuel 10:2עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,
51. 2 Samuel 10:3עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    …the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Has not David instead sent his servants to explore the city, spy it out, and overthrow it?”
52. 2 Samuel 10:6עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.
53. 2 Samuel 10:8עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
54. 2 Samuel 10:10עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    And he placed the rest of the troops under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.
55. 2 Samuel 10:11עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    “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.
56. 2 Samuel 10:14עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    When 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.
57. 2 Samuel 10:19עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    When 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.
58. 2 Samuel 11:1עַמּוֹן · Ammon; רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    In 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.
59. 2 Samuel 12:9עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    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.
60. 2 Samuel 12:26עַמּוֹן · Ammon; רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.
61. 2 Samuel 12:27רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.
62. 2 Samuel 12:29רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    So David assembled all the troops and went to Rabbah; and he fought against it and captured it.
63. 2 Samuel 12:31עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    David 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.
64. 2 Samuel 17:27עַמּוֹן · Ammon; רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    When 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.
65. 2 Samuel 23:37עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,
66. 1 Kings 11:1עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
67. 1 Kings 11:5עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
68. 1 Kings 11:7עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    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.
69. 1 Kings 11:33עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    For 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.
70. 1 Kings 14:21עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
71. 1 Kings 14:31עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.
72. 2 Kings 23:13עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    The 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.
73. 2 Kings 24:2עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    And 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.
74. 1 Chronicles 11:39עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,
75. 1 Chronicles 18:11עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    …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.
76. 1 Chronicles 19:1עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Some time later, Nahash king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son.
77. 1 Chronicles 19:2עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    And 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,
78. 1 Chronicles 19:3עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    …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?”
79. 1 Chronicles 19:6עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    When 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.
80. 1 Chronicles 19:7עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    So 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.
81. 1 Chronicles 19:9עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    The 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.
82. 1 Chronicles 19:11עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    And he placed the rest of the troops under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.
83. 1 Chronicles 19:12עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    “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.
84. 1 Chronicles 19:15עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    When 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.
85. 1 Chronicles 19:19עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    When 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.
86. 1 Chronicles 20:1עַמּוֹן · Ammon; רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    In 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.
87. 1 Chronicles 20:3עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    David 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.
88. 2 Chronicles 12:13עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
89. 2 Chronicles 20:1עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.
90. 2 Chronicles 20:10עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    And 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.
91. 2 Chronicles 20:22עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    The 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.
92. 2 Chronicles 20:23עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    The 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.
93. 2 Chronicles 24:26עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    Those who conspired against Joash were Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
94. 2 Chronicles 26:8עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    The Ammonites brought tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, for he had become exceedingly powerful.
95. 2 Chronicles 27:5עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Jotham 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.
96. Ezra 9:1עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
97. Nehemiah 2:10עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.
98. Nehemiah 2:19עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
99. Nehemiah 4:3עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
    Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”
100. Nehemiah 4:7עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
     When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,