Ammon

Certainty

Widely agreed

Coordinates

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. Nehemiah 13:1עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
   At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
2. Nehemiah 13:2Referred to, not named
   …because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
3. Nehemiah 13:23עַמּוֹנִי · Ammon
   In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
4. Psalm 83:7עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   …of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
5. Isaiah 11:14עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   They 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.
6. Jeremiah 9:26עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   Egypt, 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.”
7. Jeremiah 25:21עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;
8. Jeremiah 27:3עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
9. Jeremiah 40:11עַמּוֹן · Ammon
   When 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,
10. Jeremiah 40:14עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    …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.
11. Jeremiah 41:10עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Then 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.
12. Jeremiah 41:15עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    But Ishmael son of Nethaniah and eight of his men escaped from Johanan and went to the Ammonites.
13. Jeremiah 49:1עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Concerning 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?
14. Jeremiah 49:2עַמּוֹן · Ammon; רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    Therefore, 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.
15. Jeremiah 49:3רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
16. Jeremiah 49:6עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
17. Ezekiel 21:20עַמּוֹן · Ammon; רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
18. Ezekiel 21:28עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Now 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—
19. Ezekiel 25:2עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    “Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
20. Ezekiel 25:3עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Tell 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,
21. Ezekiel 25:5עַמּוֹן · Ammon; רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
22. Ezekiel 25:10עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.
23. Daniel 11:41עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    He will also invade the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall. But these will be delivered from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the leaders of the Ammonites.
24. Amos 1:13עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
25. Amos 1:14רַבָּה · Rabbah; רַבַּת · Rabbath
    So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.
26. Amos 1:15Referred to, not named
    Their king will go into exile—he and his princes together,” says the LORD.
27. Zephaniah 2:8עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    “I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
28. Zephaniah 2:9עַמּוֹן · Ammon
    Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”