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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.
Amun, worshipped by the Greeks as Ammon of Heliopolis, (meaning "city of the sun god") [37] had a temple and a statue, the gift of Pindar (d. 443 BC), at Thebes, [38] and another at Sparta, the inhabitants of which, as Pausanias says, [39] consulted the oracle of Ammon in Libya from early times more than the other Greeks.
Ammon and his brothers embark on a mission to the land of Nephi, and his converts there lay down their lives during attacks by their brethren, which leads to additional conversions. They refuse to take arms due to their conversion. [2] [3] The Ammonites (or Anti-Nephi-Lehies) were Lamanites who were converted to Christianity by Ammon, the son ...
The following is a list of rulers currently known from the history of the ancient Levantine kingdom Ammon. Ammon was originally ruled by a king, called the "king of the children of Ammon" (Ammonite: 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤁𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 maleḵ banīʿAmān; Hebrew: מֶלֶךְ בְּנֵי עַמֹּון meleḵ bənē-ʿAmmōn).
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 .
Ammon Bundy. He insists that fleeing Idaho was an attempt to draw a line under the matter. “I left to try to get peace,” he says. “I displaced my entire family to another state, I left all ...
The doctor went on to say the infant had lost three-quarters of a pound, which was not included in Bundy’s video. Fact check: Ammon Bundy used edited video to falsely accuse St. Luke’s doctor ...
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