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He is attested in the Hebrew Bible and in archaeological finds from the former territory of Ammon. His connections to other deities with similar names attested in the Bible and archaeologically are debated, as well as his relationship to the Canaanite supreme deity El , or the putative deity Moloch .
Ammon (/ ˈ æ m ən /; 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.
Jephthah led the Israelites in battle against Ammon and, in exchange for defeating the Ammonites, made a vow to sacrifice whatever would come out of the door of his house first. When his daughter was the first to come out of the house, he immediately regretted the vow, which bound him to sacrifice his daughter to God .
The Hebrew Bible records that Amon continued his father Manasseh's practice of idolatry and set up pagan images as his father had done. [3] II Kings states that Amon "did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father. And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served ...
Amun [a] was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad.Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife Amunet.His oracle in Siwa Oasis, located in Western Egypt near the Libyan Desert, remained the only oracle of Amun throughout. [5]
Upon the death of his father Nahash, Hanun ascended to the throne of the Ammonites.When King David sent ambassadors to convey his condolences, Hanun listened to the suspicions of the "princes of the people of Ammon", reversed his father's pro-Davidic policy and humiliated the emissaries, stripping them of their clothes and shaving half of their beards.
Names with superscripts (e.g., Nephi 1) are generally numbered according to the index in the LDS scripture, the Book of Mormon [1] (with minor changes). Missing indices indicate people in the index who are not in the Book of Mormon; for instance, Aaron 1 is the biblical Aaron, brother of Moses.
Jabesh-Gilead is a central setting of 1 Samuel 11.After Saul is anointed by Samuel, Nahash of Ammon attacks Jabesh-Gilead. Having subjected the town to a siege, its inhabitants sought terms for surrender, but were told by Nahash that they had a choice of death by sword or having their right eyes gouged out.