AMON

Builder. (1.) The governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was committed to his custody (1 Kings 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 (1:4; 3:4, 11) refers to the moral depravity prevailing in this king’s reign. He was assassinated (2 Kings 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.

(builder).

A'MON, or A'MEN (the hidden), an Egyptian god, one of the eight of the first order, and the chief of the Theban triad. Nah 3:8, margin. He is Amon. (After Wilkinson.) represented as a man clad in a linen tunic, gathered about the waist by a belt. In one hand he holds the symbol of life, in the other the staff of authority, and on his head is a cap with two high Plumes.

A'MON (builder). 1. Governor of Samaria under Ahab. 1 Kgs 22:26; 2 Chr 18:25. The fourteenth king of Judah, son and successor of Manasseh. He was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 2 Kgs 21:19. Zephaniah gives a vivid picture of the degradation of the kingdom under this wicked king. He was murdered by his servants and succeeded by his son Josiah.

faithful; true

A'MON (builder). 1. Governor of Samaria under Ahab. 1 Kgs 22:26; 2 Chr 18:25. twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 2 Kgs 21:19. Zephaniah gives a vivid picture of the degradation of the kingdom under this wicked king. He was murdered by his servants and succeeded by his son Josiah.