EASTON’S BIBLE DICTIONARY (1897 EDITION)
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.
