![]() ![]() Her king will go into exile, he and his officials together” (Amos 1:13–15).īy the time of the judges, Ammon had strengthened into an aggressive military state and joined forces with the Moabites and Amalekites to take the Transjordanian territory occupied by Israel (Judges 3:12–14). Because he ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to extend his borders, I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah that will consume her fortresses amid war cries on the day of battle, amid violent winds on a stormy day. Later, the prophet Amos condemned Ammon as a sinful nation for its violent methods in expanding their borders: “For three sins of Ammon, even for four, I will not relent. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.” Yet, because of their association with the Moabites and their hiring Balaam to curse Israel, the Ammonites were forbidden to enter the assembly of the Lord (Deuteronomy 23:3–7 Nehemiah 13:1–2). The Lord said to Israel, “I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. Deuteronomy 2:19 instructed the people of Israel not to harass the Ammonites or provoke them to war and to respect their territory because of their kinship through Lot. Scripture paints a complicated and often negative relationship between the nation of Ammon and Israel. The Bible establishes that the Ammonites had inhabited the central Transjordanian Plateau long before the Israelites arrived on the scene (Numbers 21:24 Deuteronomy 2:19). Moab was the father of the Moabites.ĭeuteronomy 2:20–21 tells us that over time the Ammonites grew powerful enough to drive out the ancient and mighty people known as the Rephaim (although the Ammonites called these giants the Zamzummim) and settle in their place. Ben-Ammi’s half-brother was Moab, who was the child of an incestuous relationship between Lot and his older daughter. Genesis 19:36–38 documents the ancestor of the Ammonites as Ben-Ammi, the son of an incestuous union between Lot and his younger daughter. The indigenous people of Ammon were known as the Ammonites, who, according to Scripture, were a Semitic group descended directly from Abraham’s nephew Lot. The capital of Ammon was called Rabbah-Ammon (2 Samuel 12:27), which is modern-day Amman, the capital of Jordan. Ammon was an ancient territory located in the central Transjordan Plateau, northeast of the Dead Sea, between the Arnon and Jabbok rivers (Psalm 83:7). ![]() The land of Ammon in the Bible boasts a long and complex history with Israel. ![]()
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