Ammon
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Ammon (Hebrew: עַמּוֹן, ʻAmmôn; "People") or Benammi was the son of Abraham's nephew Lot, by his own (younger) daughter.
His descendants, the eponymous Ammonites, caused Israel much grief. He founded the Ammonite nation, and his name is still perpetuated in the Modern city of Amman that lies some 25 miles to the north-east of the Dead Sea. Present-day Amman in fact, was once the capital city of the Ammonite nation, and was known in the old world as Rabbath-ammon. We know from the first Book of the Maccabees that Judas Maccabaeus confronted the Ammonites, and hence that the Ammonites had survived as a distinct nation until at least the second century BC. However, in the first century BC their lands were occupied by the Nabataeans and it is here that the Ammanites, as such, disappear from the historical scene. The personal name of Benammi is known from certain clan-lists from Ugarit. There also survives from Nimrud an inscription bearing the name of banu Ammanaia. The Assyrians generally knew the Ammonite nation as Bit-Am-ma-na-aia, that is, the House of Ammon.
