Amon

builder.

(1.) The governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was committed to his custody (1Kings 22:26; 2Chr 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 (Zeph 1:4 ; 3:4; 3:11) refers to the moral depravity prevailing in this king's reign.

He was assassinated (2Kings 21:18; 2Chr 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 ).

EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary