Easton's Bible Dictionary: M. G. Easton, M.A., D.D.

Amon

Builder.

  1. The governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was committed to his custody (1 Ki. 22:26; 2 Chr. 18:25).

  2. The son of Manasseh, and fourteenth king of Judah. He restored idolatry, and set up the images which his father had cast down. Zephaniah (Zeph. 1:4, 3:4, 11) refers to the moral depravity prevailing in this king's reign.

    He was assassinated (2 Ki. 21:18-26; 2 Chr. 33:20-25) by his own servants, who conspired against him.

  3. An Egyptian god, usually depicted with a human body and the head of a ram, referred to in Jer. 46:25, where the word "multitudes" in the Authorized Version is more appropriately rendered "Amon" in the Revised Version. In Nah. 3:8 the expression "populous No" of the Authorized version is rendered in the Revised Version "No-amon." Amon is identified with Ra, the sun-god of Heliopolis.

  4. Neh. 7:59.



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