AMMONITES

Passages on this topic · 150

• Genesis 19:38

  The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

• Numbers 21:24

  Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

• Deuteronomy 2:19

  When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”

• Deuteronomy 2:37

  Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near; all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.

• Deuteronomy 23:3

  An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever;

• Deuteronomy 23:4

  because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

• Deuteronomy 23:5

  Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

• Deuteronomy 23:6

  You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

• Joshua 12:2

  Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;

• Joshua 13:10

  and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;

• Joshua 13:25

  Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is near Rabbah;

• Judges 3:12

  The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

• Judges 3:13

  He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.

• Judges 10:6

  The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.

• Judges 10:7

  Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

• Judges 10:8

  They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years, they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

• Judges 10:9

  The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.

• Judges 10:10

  The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”

• Judges 10:11

  Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

• Judges 10:12

  The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.

• Judges 10:13

  Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

• Judges 10:14

  Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”

• Judges 10:15

  The children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned! Do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”

• Judges 10:16

  They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

• Judges 10:17

  Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.

• Judges 10:18

  The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

• Judges 11:13

  The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”

• Judges 11:32

  So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.

• Judges 11:33

  He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

• Judges 12:1

  The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”

• Judges 12:2

  Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.

• Judges 12:3

  When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”

• 2 Samuel 8:12

  of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

• 2 Samuel 10:1

  After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Samuel 10:2

  David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

• 2 Samuel 11:1

  At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 12:26

  Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

• 2 Samuel 12:27

  Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters.

• 2 Samuel 12:28

  Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name.”

• 2 Samuel 12:29

  David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

• 2 Samuel 12:30

  He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city.

• 2 Samuel 12:31

  He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 17:27

  When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

• 1 Kings 11:1

  Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

• 2 Kings 23:13

  The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• 1 Chronicles 18:11

  King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

• 1 Chronicles 19:1

  After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 19:2

  David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

• 1 Chronicles 20:1

  At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.

• 1 Chronicles 20:2

  David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city.

• 1 Chronicles 20:3

  He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 26:7

  The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.

• 1 Chronicles 26:8

  All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom.

• 1 Chronicles 27:5

  The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

• 2 Chronicles 12:13

  So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

• 2 Chronicles 20:25

  When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much.

• Ezra 9:12

  Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

• Ezra 10:10

  Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

• Ezra 10:11

  Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

• Ezra 10:12

  Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

• Ezra 10:13

  But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

• Ezra 10:14

  Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”

• Ezra 10:15

  Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

• Ezra 10:16

  The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

• Ezra 10:17

  They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

• Ezra 10:18

  Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

• Ezra 10:19

  They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

• Ezra 10:20

  Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

• Ezra 10:21

  Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

• Ezra 10:22

  Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

• Ezra 10:23

  Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

• Ezra 10:24

  Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

• Ezra 10:25

  Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

• Ezra 10:26

  Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.

• Ezra 10:27

  Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

• Ezra 10:28

  Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.

• Ezra 10:29

  Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.

• Ezra 10:30

  Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

• Ezra 10:31

  Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

• Ezra 10:32

  Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.

• Ezra 10:33

  Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.

• Ezra 10:34

  Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

• Ezra 10:35

  Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

• Ezra 10:36

  Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

• Ezra 10:37

  Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,

• Ezra 10:38

  and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,

• Ezra 10:39

  and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,

• Ezra 10:40

  Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

• Ezra 10:41

  Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,

• Ezra 10:42

  Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.

• Ezra 10:43

  Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.

• Ezra 10:44

  All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

• Nehemiah 4:7

  But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;

• Nehemiah 4:8

  and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.

• Nehemiah 13:23

  In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

• Nehemiah 13:26

  Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

• Isaiah 11:14

  They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.

• Jeremiah 9:25

  “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:

• Jeremiah 9:26

  Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

• Jeremiah 25:15

  For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

• Jeremiah 25:16

  They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

• Jeremiah 25:17

  Then took I the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:

• Jeremiah 25:18

  Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;

• Jeremiah 25:19

  Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

• Jeremiah 25:20

  and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

• Jeremiah 25:21

  Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;

• Jeremiah 27:1

  In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

• Jeremiah 27:2

  Yahweh says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.

• Jeremiah 27:3

  Then send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

• Jeremiah 27:4

  Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters:

• Jeremiah 27:5

  ‘I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

• Jeremiah 27:6

  Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.

• Jeremiah 27:7

  All the nations will serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.

• Jeremiah 27:8

  “‘“‘It will happen that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

• Jeremiah 27:9

  But as for you, don’t you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”

• Jeremiah 27:10

  for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

• Jeremiah 27:11

  But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that nation will I let remain in their own land,’ says Yahweh; ‘and they shall till it, and dwell therein.’”’”

• Jeremiah 40:14

  and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn’t believe them.

• Jeremiah 41:10

  Then Ishmael carried away captive all the of the people who were left in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.

• Jeremiah 49:1

  Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says: “Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?

• Jeremiah 49:2

  Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters will be burned with fire: then Israel will possess those who possessed him,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 49:3

  “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah! Clothe yourself in sackcloth. Lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

• Jeremiah 49:4

  Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

• Jeremiah 49:5

  Behold, I will bring a terror on you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, “from all who are around you. All of you will be driven completely out, and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives.

• Jeremiah 49:6

  “But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon,” says Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 21:20

  You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

• Ezekiel 21:28

  “You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: “A sword! A sword is drawn! It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

• Ezekiel 21:29

  while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

• Ezekiel 21:30

  Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.

• Ezekiel 21:31

  I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

• Ezekiel 21:32

  You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You shall be remembered no more; for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”’”

• Ezekiel 25:1

  Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

• Ezekiel 25:2

  Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:

• Ezekiel 25:3

  and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

• Ezekiel 25:4

  therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

• Ezekiel 25:5

  I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 25:6

  For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against the land of Israel;

• Ezekiel 25:7

  therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a plunder to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 25:8

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;

• Ezekiel 25:9

  therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,

• Ezekiel 25:10

  to the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.

• Ezekiel 25:11

  and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Daniel 11:41

  He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

• Amos 1:13

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

• Amos 1:14

  But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;

• Amos 1:15

  and their king will go into captivity, he and his princes together,” says Yahweh.

• Zephaniah 2:8

  I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

• Zephaniah 2:9

  Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

• Zephaniah 2:10

  This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

• Zephaniah 2:11

  Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.