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.

2024年12月31日 · In the Bible, they are described as being descendants of Ben-ammi, who was the son of Lot (Abraham’s nephew) and Lot’s younger daughter (Genesis 19:38). The capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Ammon was Rabbah, which is located at modern-day Amman, Jordan.

The small, tribally organized group known as “the sons of Ammon” or Ammonites inhabited the region around the modern city of Amman, Jordan. They flourished from the eighth to sixth centuries BCE, especially during the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods.

2022年5月11日 · The older daughter had a son named Moab (“from father”), and the younger gave birth to Ben-Ammi (“son of my people”). The Ammonites, descendants of Ben-Ammi, were a nomadic people who lived in the territory of modern-day Jordan, and the name of the capital city, Amman, reflects the name of those ancient inhabitants.

Ben-Ammi is the ancestor of all the Ammonites living today. 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

Directly above Moab were the Amorites and east of the Amorites were the Ammonites, or the sons of Ammon. The land which Israel took at one time belonged to Moab and it is possible, although it is not stated here, that some of that land had also belonged to Ammon (see Num. 21:21–35 Joshua 12:2 13:10).

רבּת בּני , "The great (city) of the sons of Ammon," is the full name of the Ammonite capital (cf. Deuteronomy 3:11), which is usually called, briefly, רבּה (Amos 1:14; 2 Samuel 11:1, etc.); it was afterwards called Philadelphia, probably after Ptolemy Philadelphus, in Polybius' ̔Ραββατάμανα, in Abulfeda Amn, which is ...

Ben-Ammi commonly known as Ammon was the son of an incestuous union of Lot with his younger daughter. He was the brother of Moab, who was also a child of Lot’s incestuous relationship with his eldest daughter. Both were conceived after the destruction of Sodom. Ammon became the ancestor of the Ammonites. He is on…

This is reflected in the name usually employed in Old Testament to designate them, נ, Ben ‛Ammı̄,, Benē ‛Ammōn, "son of my people," "children of my people," i.e. relatives. Hence we find that the Israelites are commanded to avoid conflict with them on their march to the Promised Land ( Deuteronomy 2:19 ).

Ammon and Aram Defeated - Now it happened afterwards that the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son became king in his place. Then David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, ...