He faces opposition from three powerful neighbours, the Samaritans, the Ammonites, and the Arabs, as well as the city of Ashdod, but manages to rebuild the walls.

" Abraham's nephew Lot is saved from the destruction of Sodom, and through incest with his daughters becomes the ancestor of the Moabites and Ammonites.

Nevertheless, the unwalled cities and towns that remained were subject to slave raids by the Phoenicians and intervention in their internal affairs from Samaritans, Arabs and Ammonites.

Eventually Samuel delegates this role to his sons, based at Beersheba, but they behave corruptly and so the people, facing invasion from the Ammonites, persuade Samuel to appoint a king.

The Philistines, while an integral part of the Canaanite milieu, do not seem to have been ethnically homogenous with the Canaanites ; the Hurrians ( who spoke a language isolate ), Hittites ( Indo-European speakers ), as well as the Semitic Aramaeans, Moabites, and Ammonites, are also considered " distinct " from generic Canaanites / Amorites, in scholarship or in tradition ( although in the Biblical Book of Nations, " Heth ", Hittites are a son of Canaan, despite the fact that it has been proven beyond doubt that the Hittites spoke an Indo-European language ).

:" But Israel put them to the sword and took possession of their land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as of the Ammonites.

There is also the cliff of Ziz, the pass by which the horde of Moabites, Ammonites and Mehunim made their way up from the shores of the Dead Sea to the wilderness of Judah near Tekoa.

*: Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

30-38, both the Moabites and the Ammonites were descended from the two sons of Lot ( themselves half-brothers by his two daughters ), Moab and Ben-ammi, which would corroborate the notion that they share a common origin.

Forced from their homeland by their former Lamanite brethren, the Ammonites were re-located to the Nephite land of Jershon and the Nephites took up their defense in their behalf.

Ammonites fit these demands well, and are the best-known fossils that have been widely used for this.

Ammonites are an extinct group of marine invertebrate animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda.

Ammonites are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which they are found to specific geological time periods.

Ammonites are an extinct form of the subclass Cephalopod.

Ammonites, graptolites, archeocyathids, and trilobites are index fossils that are widely used in biostratigraphy.

Lamoni's people are generally considered to be the corp of a people that would be called the Anti-Nephi Lehis, or Ammonites.

Ammonites evolved so rapidly, and their shells are so often preserved, that they serve as important zone fossils.

Ammonites indicating the Morrisi and Subcontractus zones of the Middle Bathonian are frequent.

Helaman next appears in Alma chapter 53, in the 26th year of the reign of the judges ( circa 66 BC ), trying to persuade the Anti-Nephi-Lehies, also known as Ammonites, not to take up arms.

It then describes Saul as leading a war against the Ammonites, being chosen by the people to be king, and leading them against the Philistines.

* ( and ) The Ammonites, led by Nahash, laid siege to Jabesh-Gilead, which was forced to surrender.

Ammonites ( subclass Ammonoidea ) can be distinguished by their septa, the dividing walls that separate the chambers in the phragmocone, by the nature of their sutures where the septa joint the outer shell wall, and in general by their siphuncles.

gained by the Ammonites over the king of Bashan.

In 853 BC a coalition which was formed by the kingdoms of Egypt, Hamath, Arvad, the Ammonites, " Ahab of Israel " and other neighboring states, under the leadership of king Hadadezer of Damascus, fought the Assyrian king at Battle of Qarqar.

It has also been suggested that the Ba ‘ al of Tyre, Melqart " king of the city " ( who was probably the Ba ‘ al whose worship was furthered by Ahab and his house ) was this supposed god Moloch and that Melqart / Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical to other gods whose names contain mlk.

* librettos for the operas Maria Seski ( 1799 ), Nephtali, ou les Ammonites by Blangini ( Ballard, Paris 1806 ), and the Arthurian Arthus de Bretagne,

The manner of the exile led to the further history of the tribe being lost, and according to the Book of Jeremiah, their former lands were ( re ) conquered by the Ammonites.

24 has been thought by some to be a proof of this, since it speaks of Chemosh as the god of the Ammonites, while Moloch is elsewhere their god ( compare I Kings xi.

" Both Chemosh and Molech may have had the same origins but if so, by Solomon's time they had been denominated into differing objects for different peoples, Chemosh for the Moabites and Moloch for the Ammonites.

Ammonites found in this layer have apparently been attacked by larger crustaceans.

Many scholars identify the Zuzim with the Zamzummim ( Deuteronomy 2: 20 ), a tribe of the Rephaim living in the same region as the Zuzim and later occupied by the Ammonites.

The Ammonites ( or Anti-Nephi-Lehies ) lived in Jershon and were converted to Christianity by Ammon.

After being attacked by the remaining Lamanites, the Ammonites moved to a territory given to them by the Nephites.

When they saw how the Nephites were suffering by defending them, the Ammonites were considering breaking their oath to defend themselves when two thousand of their sons ( who had been too young at the time to have made the covenant ) volunteered to fight for the defense of the Nephites and the Ammonites.

According to the Book of Mormon, the Ammonites () were a group of Lamanites who had been converted to the Christian religion of the Nephites by the missionary efforts of Ammon and his brothers.

Ammon (; ), also referred to as the Ammonites and children of Ammon, was an ancient nation described in the Old Testament to be located east of the Jordan River, Gilead, and the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan .< ref >

" ( Judges 11: 3 ) The elders of Gilead ask him to be their leader in the campaign against the Ammonites, but he holds out for a more permanent and a broader position, and the elders agree that, provided Jephthah succeeds in defeating Ammon, he will be their permanent chieftain.

It goes on to say that at the royal city of Rabbah of the Ammonites, his giant bedstead could still be seen as a novelty at the time the narrative was written.

Judges chapter 11 contains a story in which a Judge named Jephthah makes a vow to God to sacrifice the first thing that comes out of the door of his house in exchange for God's help with a military battle against the Ammonites.

On behalf of Israel as a whole and in reliance on the might of God the Judge, Jephthah challenges the Ammonites.

The Anti-Nephi-Lehies or Ammonites " open a correspondence with them, and the curse of God did no more follow them " ().