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t. e. Ammon (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. [1][2] The chief city of the country was Rabbah or Rabbat Ammon, site of ...
The next time the name is mentioned is in the account of David's war, who made the Moabites tributary (2 Samuel 8:2; 1 Chronicles 18:2). Moab may have been under the rule of an Israelite governor during this period; among the exiles who returned to Judea from Babylonia were a clan descended from Pahath-Moab , whose name means "ruler of Moab".
Name. [edit] The Hebrew word Edom means "red", and the Hebrew Bible relates it to the name of its founder, Esau, the elder son of the Hebrew patriarch Isaac, because he was born "red all over". [ 17 ] As a young adult, he sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for a portion of "red pottage". [ 18 ]
According to the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, Armageddon (/ ˌ ɑːr m ə ˈ ɡ ɛ d ən /; Ancient Greek: Ἁρμαγεδών Harmagedṓn; [1] [2] Late Latin: Armagedōn; [3] from Hebrew: הַר מְגִדּוֹ Har Məgīddō) is the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for a battle during the end times, which is variously interpreted as either ...
Gilead (Arabic: جلعاد, Ǧalʻād or Jalaad) is an Arabic term used to refer to the mountainous land extending north and south of Jabbok. It was used more generally for the entire region east of the Jordan River. It corresponds today to the northwestern part of the Kingdom of Jordan. The region appears in the ancient Safaitic inscriptions.
Manasseh, Amon and Josiah (16th century print) Amon of Judah[a] was the fifteenth King of Judah who, according to the biblical account, succeeded his father Manasseh of Judah. Amon is most remembered for his idolatrous practices during his short two-year reign, which led to a revolt against him and eventually to his assassination in c. 641 BC.
Amun, worshipped by the Greeks as Ammon or Heliopolis, (meaning "city of the sun god") [32] had a temple and a statue, the gift of Pindar (d. 443 BC), at Thebes, [33] and another at Sparta, the inhabitants of which, as Pausanias says, [34] consulted the oracle of Ammon in Libya from early times more than the other Greeks.
Tobiah was an Ammonite official [1] (possibly a governor of Ammon, possibly also of Jewish descent). [2] He incited the Ammonites to hinder Nehemiah 's efforts to rebuild Jerusalem. [3][4] He, along with Sanballat the Horonite and Geshem the Arabian, resorted to a stratagem and, pretending to wish a conference with Nehemiah, invited him to meet ...