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Amon
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Amon (â'mon), an Egyptian divinity, whose name occurs in mat of No-amon, Nahum 3:8 R. "V., but in A. V. "populous No," or Thebes, also called No. The Greeks called this divinity Ammon. The ancient Egyptian name is Amen. Amen was one of the eight gods of the first order, and chief of the triad of Thebes. He was worshiped at that city as Amen-ra, or "Amen the sun."
Amon (â'mon), builder. King of Judah, son and successor of Manasseh, reigned two years from b.c. 642 to 640. Following his father's example, Amon devoted himself wholly to the service of false gods, but was killed in a conspiracy. The people avenged him by putting all the conspirators to death, and secured the succession to his son Josiah. To Amon's reign we must refer the terrible picture which the prophet Zephaniah gives of the moral and religious state of Jerusalem. 2. A governor of Samaria. 1 Kings 22:26. 3. A person also called Ami.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Amon'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/a/amon.html. 1893.
