Ammon

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Ammon was an ancient kingdom located east of the Jordan River, often interacting and clashing with the Israelites throughout biblical history.

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Label Occurrences
Ammon canonical 14

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Canaanite language
Iron Age Levantine polity
ancient city
ancient kingdom
ancient people
biblical figure
capital city
deity
alliedWith Aram-Damascus
linked to: Damascus

Moab
archaeologicalEvidenceFoundAt Rujm al-Malfuf
Tell Siran
Tell el-ʿUmeiri
biblicalAncestor Ben-ammi
linked to: Ben-Ammi
capital Rabbah
capitalOf Jordan
chiefDeity Milcom
conflictedWith Kingdom of Israel
Kingdom of Judah
economyBasedOn agriculture
pastoralism
ethnicOriginAccordingToBible descendants of Lot
ethnonym Ammonites
linked to: Ammonite
flourishedDuring Iron Age
hadRulingClass kings of Ammon
knownFrom Assyrian inscriptions
Moabite inscriptions
biblical texts
language Ammonite language
laterIncorporatedInto Hellenistic kingdoms
Roman Empire
locatedEastOf Jordan River
locatedIn Ammon
Transjordan
mentionedIn Hebrew Bible
linked to: Tanakh

Old Testament
linked to: Bible
modernSite Amman
neighborOf Edom
Israel
Moab
partOf ancient Levant
politicalStructure monarchy
regionCorrespondsTo northwestern Jordan
linked to: Northern Jordan
religion West Semitic religion
usedScript Phoenician script
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
vassalOf Achaemenid Empire
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire

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