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
