Amninadab
(Matthew 1:4; Luke 3:33) [Amminadab, 1]
Amnon
(faithful).
•Eldest son of David. (B.C. 1052.) He dishonored his half-sister Tamar, and was in consequence
murdered by her brother. (2 Samuel 13:1-29)
•Son of Shimon. (1 Chronicles 4:20)
Amok
a priest who returned with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 12:7,20) (B.C. 536.)
Amon
(builder).
•One of Ahab’s governors. (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chronicles 18:25)
•King of Judah, son and successor of Manasseh, reigned two years, from B.C. 642 to 640. Amon
devoted himself wholly to the service of false gods, but was killed in a conspiracy, and was
succeeded by his son Josiah.
Amon, Or Amen
(the mysterious), an Egyptian divinity, whose name occurs in that of No-amon. (Nahum 3:8)
Amen was one of the eight gods of the first order and chief of the triad of Thebes. He was worshipped
at that city as Amen-Ra, or “Amen the Sun.”
Amorite, The Amorites
(dwellers on the summits, mountaineers), one of the chief nations who possessed the land of
Canaan before its conquest by the Israelites. As dwelling on the elevated portions of the country,
they are contrasted with the Canaanites, who were the dwellers in the lowlands; and the two thus
formed the main broad divisions of the Holy Land, (Numbers 13:29) and see (14:7; 1:7,20)
“Mountain of the Amorites;” (1:44; Joshua 5:1; 10:6; 11:3) They first occupied the barren heights
west of the Dead Sea, at the place called afterwards Engedi. From this point they stretched west to
Hebron. At the date of the invasion of the country, Sihon, their then king, had taken the rich pasture
land south of the Jabbok. This rich tract, bounded by the Jabbok on the north, the Arnon on the
south, the Jordan on the west and “the wilderness” on the east, (Judges 11:21,22) was, perhaps in
the most special sense the “land of the Amorites,” (Numbers 21:31; Joshua 12:2,3; 13:10; Judges
11:21,22) but their possessions are distinctly stated to have extended to the very foot of Hermon,
(3:8; 4:48) embracing “Gilead and all Bashan,” (3:10) with the Jordan valley on the east of the
river. (4:49) After the conquest of Canaan nothing of importance is heard of the Amorites in the
Bible.
Amos
(burden), native of Tekoa in Judah, about six miles south of Bethlehem, originally a shepherd
and dresser of sycamore trees, who was called by God s Spirit to be a prophet, although not trained
in any of the regular prophetic schools. (Amos 1:1; 7:14,15) He travelled from Judah into the
northern kingdom of Israel or Ephraim, and there exercised his ministry, apparently not for any
long time. (His date cannot be later than B.C. 808 for he lived in the reigns of Uzziah king of Judah
and Jeroboam king of Israel; but his ministry probably took place at an earlier date, perhaps about
the middle of Jeroboam’s reign Nothing is known of the time or manner of his death.—ED.)
Amos, Book Of
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