Ammonites (97 Occurrences)

Ammonites

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Genesis 19:38 And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi--the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
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Numbers 21:24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
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Deuteronomy 2:19 and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, harass them not, nor contend with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.--
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Deuteronomy 2:20 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
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Deuteronomy 2:21 They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;
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Deuteronomy 2:37 Only to the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever the LORD our God forbade us.
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Deuteronomy 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.--
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Deuteronomy 3:16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley for a border; even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
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Joshua 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
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Joshua 13:10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
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Joshua 13:25 And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
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Judges 3:13 He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amal'ekites, and went and defeated Israel; and they took possession of the city of palms.
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Judges 10:6 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the LORD, and did not serve him.
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Judges 10:7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,
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Judges 10:9 And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of E'phraim; so that Israel was sorely distressed.
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Judges 10:11 And the LORD said to the people of Israel, "Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?
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Judges 10:17 Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead; and the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.
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Judges 10:18 And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man that will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
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Judges 11:4 After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel.
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Judges 11:5 And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob;
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Judges 11:6 and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight with the Ammonites."
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Judges 11:8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the Ammonites, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
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Judges 11:9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head."
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Judges 11:12 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, "What have you against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?"
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Judges 11:13 And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel on coming from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably."
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Judges 11:14 And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites
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Judges 11:15 and said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,
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Judges 11:27 I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me; the LORD, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.'
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Judges 11:28 But the king of the Ammonites did not heed the message of Jephthah which he sent to him.
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Judges 11:29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manas'seh, and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.
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Judges 11:30 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand,
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Judges 11:31 then whoever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the LORD's, and I will offer him up for a burnt offering."
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Judges 11:32 So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them; and the LORD gave them into his hand.
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Judges 11:33 And he smote them from Aro'er to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a very great slaughter. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.
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Judges 11:36 And she said to him, "My father, if you have opened your mouth to the LORD, do to me according to what has gone forth from your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites."
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Judges 12:1 The men of E'phraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire."
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Judges 12:2 And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had a great feud with the Ammonites; and when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.
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Judges 12:3 And when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hand, and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into my hand; why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?"
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1 Samuel 11:10 and the men of Jabesh say 'to the Ammonites', 'To-morrow we come out unto you, and ye have done to us according to all that 'is' good in your eyes.'
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1 Samuel 11:11 It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
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1 Samuel 12:12 And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.
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1 Samuel 14:47 Now when Saul had taken his place as ruler of Israel, he made war on those who were against him on every side, Moab and the Ammonites and Edom and the kings of Zobah and the Philistines: and whichever way he went, he overcame them.
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2 Samuel 8:12 of Aram, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
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2 Samuel 10:1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
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2 Samuel 10:2 And David said: 'I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me.' So David sent by the hand of his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
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2 Samuel 10:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob, and the Arameans of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
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2 Samuel 10:8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate; and the Arameans of Zobah, and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
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2 Samuel 10:10 and the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother, and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
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2 Samuel 10:11 And he said: 'If the Arameans be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me, but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.
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2 Samuel 10:14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Arameans were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 10:19 And when all the kings that were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Arameans feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
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2 Samuel 11:1 And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in My sight? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten with the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to be thy wife, and him thou hast slain with the sword of the children of Ammon.
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2 Samuel 12:26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
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2 Samuel 12:31 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln; and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 17:27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
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1 Kings 11:1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
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1 Kings 11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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1 Kings 11:7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the detestation of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestation of the children of Ammon.
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1 Kings 11:33 Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws and my decisions as his father David did.
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2 Kings 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the detestation of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the detestation of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
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1 Chronicles 18:11 These also did king David dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
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1 Chronicles 19:1 And it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
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1 Chronicles 19:2 And David said: 'l will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.' So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
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1 Chronicles 19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun: 'Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?'
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1 Chronicles 19:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Aram-naharaim, and out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.
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1 Chronicles 19:7 So they hired them thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people; who came and encamped before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
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1 Chronicles 19:9 And the children of Ammon came out and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.
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1 Chronicles 19:11 And the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
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1 Chronicles 19:12 And he said: 'If the Arameans be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me; but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.
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1 Chronicles 19:15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Arameans were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
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1 Chronicles 19:19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and served him; neither would the Arameans help the children of Ammon any more.
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1 Chronicles 20:1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, Joab went out at the head of the armed forces and made waste all the land of the Ammonites and put his men in position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem. And Joab took Rabbah and made it waste.
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1 Chronicles 20:3 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. And thus did David unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 20:1 It happened after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
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2 Chronicles 26:8 The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceeding strong.
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2 Chronicles 27:5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
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Ezra 9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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Nehemiah 4:7 But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;
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Isaiah 11:14 And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they spoil the children of the east; they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
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Jeremiah 27:3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
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Jeremiah 40:11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
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Jeremiah 40:14 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
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Jeremiah 41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
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Jeremiah 41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
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Jeremiah 49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
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Jeremiah 49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 49:6 And after this I turn back the captivity of the sons of Ammon, An affirmation of Jehovah.'
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Ezekiel 21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
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Ezekiel 21:28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
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Ezekiel 25:2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
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Ezekiel 25:3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
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Ezekiel 25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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Ezekiel 25:10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
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Daniel 11:41 and hath come into the desirable land, and many do stumble, and these escape from his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the sons of Ammon.
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Zephaniah 2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, And the revilings of the sons of Ammon, Wherewith they reproached My people, And magnify 'themselves' against their border.
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Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore, I live, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Surely, Moab is as Sodom, And the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, An overrunning of nettles and salt-pits, And a desolation -- unto the age. A residue of My people do seize them, And a remnant of My nation inherit them.
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Thesaurus

Ammonites (97 Occurrences)
... AMMON; AMMONITES. ... Thus, Israel helped Ammonites by destroying their old enemies,
and this makes their conduct at a later period the more reprehensible. ...
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Chemosh (8 Occurrences)
... kemosh; Chamos): 1. Moabites, the People of Chemosh 2. Solomon and Chemosh Worship
3. Josiah Putting Down Chemosh Worship 4. Chemosh and Ammonites 5. Moabite ...
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Jephthah (26 Occurrences)
... Whom God sets free, or the breaker through, a "mighty man of valour" who delivered
Israel from the oppression of the Ammonites (Judges 11:1-33), and judged ...
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Nahash (9 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Serpent. (1.) King of the Ammonites in the time
of Saul. The inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead having been ...
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Rabbah (14 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Or Rab'bath, great. (1.) "Rabbath of the children of Ammon,"
the chief city of the Ammonites, among the eastern hills, some 20 miles ...
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Joab (128 Occurrences)
... military achievements were, (1) against the allied forces of Syria and Ammon; (2)
against Edom (1 Kings 11:15, 16); and (3) against the Ammonites (2 Samuel 10:7 ...
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Hadadezer (18 Occurrences)
... of Zobah. Hanun, the king of the Ammonites, hired among others the army
of Hadadezer to assist him in his war against David. Joab ...
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Ammonite (22 Occurrences)
... Moabites (Judges 10:11; 2 Chronicles 20:1; Zephaniah 2:8). Both of these tribes
hired Balaam to curse Israel (Deuteronomy 23:4). The Ammonites were probably ...
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Zamzummims (1 Occurrence)
... They were overcome by the Ammonites, "who called them Zamzummims." They belonged
to the Rephaim, and inhabited the country afterwards occupied by the Ammonites...
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Medeba (5 Occurrences)
... Here was fought the great battle in which Joab defeated the Ammonites and
their allies (1 Chronicles 19:7-15; Comp. 2 Samuel 10:6-14). ...
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ATS Bible Dictionary

Ammonites

The descendants of Ammon, or Ben-Ammi, a son of Lot. They destroyed an ancient race of giants called Zamzummim, and seized their country, which lay east of Judea, De 2:19-21. Their territory extended from the Arnon to the Jabbok, and from the Jordan a considerable distance into Arabia. Their capital city was Rabbah, (also called Rabbath Ammon, and afterwards Philadelphia,) which stood on the Jabbok. Yet in the time of Moses they had been driven out of this region, towards the east, by the Amorites, Numbers 21:21-35 32:33. Moses was forbidden to assail them, De 2:19. They were gross idolaters; their chief idol being Moloch, supposed to be the same with Saturn, 1 Kings 11:5-7 2 Kings 23:13. They oppressed Israel in the time of Jephthah, and were defeated by him with great slaughter, Jud 11:1-40. The children of Ammon afterwards, at various times, troubled the Israelites, for which the prophets threatened them with divine judgments, Jeremiah 46:1-6 Ezekiel 25:2-10.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

AMMON; AMMONITES

am'-on, am'-on-its (`ammon; `ammonim):

The Hebrew tradition makes this tribe descendants of Lot and hence related to the Israelites (Genesis 19:38). This is reflected in the name usually employed in Old Testament to designate them, Ben `Ammi, Bene `Ammon, "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). Their dwelling-place was on the east of the Dead Sea and the Jordan, between the Arnon and the Jabbok, but, before the advance of the Hebrews, they had been dispossessed of a portion of their land by the Amorites, who founded, along the east side of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, the kingdom of Sihon (Numbers 21:21-31).

We know from the records of Egypt, especially Tell el-Amarna Letters, the approximate date of the Amorite invasion (14th and 13th centuries, B.C.). They were pressed on the north by the Hittites who forced them upon the tribes of the south, and some of them settled east of the Jordan. Thus, Israel helped Ammonites by destroying their old enemies, and this makes their conduct at a later period the more reprehensible. In the days of Jephthah they oppressed the Israelites east of the Jordan, claiming that the latter had deprived them of their territory when they came from Egypt, whereas it was the possessions of the Amorites they took (Judges 11:1-28). They were defeated, but their hostility did not cease, and their conduct toward the Israelites was particularly shameful, as in the days of Saul (1 Samuel 11) and of David (2 Samuel 10). This may account for the cruel treatment meted out to them in the war that followed (2 Samuel 12:26-31).

They seem to have been completely subdued by David and their capital was taken, and we find a better spirit manifested afterward, for Nahash of Rabbah showed kindness to him when a fugitive (2 Samuel 17:27-29). Their country came into the possession of Jeroboam, on the division of the kingdom, and when the Syrians of Damascus deprived the kingdom of Israel of their possessions east of the Jordan, the Ammonites became subjects of Benhadad, and we find a contingent of 1,000 of them serving as allies of that king in the great battle of the Syrians with the Assyrians at Qarqar (854 B.C.) in the reign of Shalmaneser II. They may have regained their old territory when Tiglath-pileser carried off the Israelites East of the Jordan into captivity (2 Kings 15:29 1 Chronicles 5:26). Their hostility to both kingdoms, Judah and Israel, was often manifested. In the days of Jehoshaphat they joined with the Moabites in an attack upon him, but met with disaster (2 Chronicles 20). They paid tribute to Jotham (2 Chronicles 27:5). After submitting to Tiglath-pileser they were generally tributary to Assyria, but we have mention of their joining In the general uprising that took place under Sennacherib; but they submitted and we find them tributary in the reign of Esarhaddon.

Their hostility to Judah is shown in their joining the Chaldeans to destroy it (2 Kings 24:2). Their cruelty is denounced by the prophet Amos 1:13, and their destruction by Jeremiah 49:1-6, Ezekiel 21:28-32, Zephaniah 2:8, 9. Their murder of Gedaliah (2 Kings 25:22-26 Jeremiah 40:14) was a dastardly act. Tobiah the Ammonites united with Sanballat to oppose Ne (Nehemiah 4), and their opposition to the Jews did not cease with the establishment of the latter in Judea.

They joined the Syrians in their wars with the Maccabees and were defeated by Judas (1 Mac 5:6). Their religion was a degrading and cruel superstition. Their chief god was Molech, or Moloch, to whom they offered human sacrifices (1 Kings 11:7) against which Israel was especially warned (Leviticus 20:2-5). This worship was common to other tribes for we find it mentioned among the Phoenicians.

H. Porter

Greek

3434. Moloch -- Moloch, the god of the Ammonites
... Moloch, the god of the Ammonites. Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Transliteration: Moloch Phonetic Spelling: (mol-okh') Short Definition: Moloch ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3726. Kephar Haammoni -- "a village of the Ammonites," a village ...
Kephar Haammoni. 3725, 3726. Kephar Haammoni. 3727 . "a village of the Ammonites,"
a village in Benjamin. Transliteration: Kephar Haammoni Phonetic Spelling ...
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4445b. Milkom -- a god of the Ammonites
... 4445a, 4445b. Milkom. 4446 . a god of the Ammonites. Transliteration:
Milkom Short Definition: Milcom. Word Origin from the same ...
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5983. Ammon -- a people living East of the Jordan
... Word Origin from im Definition a people living E. of the Jordan NASB Word Usage
Ammon (98), Ammonites (1), Ammonites* (7). Ammon, Ammonites. ...
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5984. Ammoni -- descendant of Ammon
... Ammonite. Word Origin from Ammon Definition desc. of Ammon NASB Word Usage
Ammonite (10), Ammonites (5). Ammonites. Patronymically ...
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4432. Molek -- a heathen god to whom Isr. sacrificed children
... sacrificed children NASB Word Usage Molech (8). Molech. From malak; Molek (ie King),
the chief deity of the Ammonites -- Molech. Compare Malkam. ...
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4445. Malkam -- a Benjamite
... Malcham, Milcom Or Milkowm {mil-kome'}; from melek for Molek; Malcam or Milcom,
the national idol of the Ammonites -- Malcham, Milcom. see HEBREW melek. ...
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1121. ben -- son
... root Definition son NASB Word Usage afflicted (1), afflicted* (1), age (7), aliens*
(2), Ammonites* (7), anointed* (1), arrow (1), arrows (1), Assyrians* (3 ...
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Library

How the War was Waged against the Ammonites and Happily Concluded.
... Years. From The Death Of Saul To The Death Of David. CHAPTER 6. How The War
Was Waged Against The Ammonites And Happily Concluded. 1 ...
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Saul's Expedition against the Nation of the Ammonites and victory ...
... CHAPTER 5. Saul's Expedition Against The Nation Of The Ammonites And Victory
Over Them And The Spoils He Took From Them. 1. After ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 5 sauls expedition against.htm

Jephthah's Foolish Promise
... There certain rascals gathered about him, and they used to go out on raids with
him. After a time the Ammonites made war against the Israelites. ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/jephthahs foolish promise.htm

Persistency in Wrong Doing.
... because the men were greatly ashamed, and said, Tarry at Jericho, until your beards
be grown, and then return." As soon as Hanun and his Ammonites had done this ...
/.../xliii persistency in wrong doing.htm

The Nations of the South-East
... But they had been treated as the Canaanites were treated by the Israelites in later
days; their cities were captured by the invading Ammonites, and they ...
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How Nebuzaradan Set Gedaliah Over the Jews that were Left in Judea ...
... was of the royal family one Ishmael, a wicked man, and very crafty, who, during
the siege of Jerusalem, fled to Baalis, the king of the Ammonites, and abode ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 9 how nebuzaradan set.htm

'More than Conquerors through Him'
... retrograde. From I Chronicles e learn that the Ammonites had begun the campaign
by besieging Medeba, a trans-Jordanic Israelitish city. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/more than conquerors through him.htm

That the Judges who Succeeded Gideon Made War with the Adjoining ...
... So the Ammonites and Philistines had them in contempt, and laid waste the country
with a great army; and when they had taken all Perea, they were so insolent ...
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How Samuel Found a Leader
... Therefore the men of Jabesh said to the Ammonites, "To-morrow we will come out to
you, and you shall do to us whatever you please." So on the following day ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/how samuel found a leader.htm

David's Sin.
... THE OLD TESTAMENT CHAPTER XXIV. DAVID'S SIN. The army of Israel was at war
with the Ammonites, and Joab was the chief captain. David ...
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Subtopics

Ammonites

Ammonites: Character of

Ammonites: Confederate With Moabites and Amalekites Against Israel

Ammonites: Conspire Against the Jews

Ammonites: Defeated by the Israelites

Ammonites: Descendants of Ben-Ammi, One of the Sons of Lot

Ammonites: Excluded from the Congregation of Israel

Ammonites: Idols of Milcom

Ammonites: Israelites Forbidden to Disturb

Ammonites: Jews Intermarry With

Ammonites: Kings of Baalis