Amon

Amon ā´mŏn [key][Heb.,=trustworthy]. 1King of Judah (642–640 BC), son and successor of Manasseh. According toChronicles, he was inattentive to the worship of God, and the accounts accordingly denounce him strongly. However, his worship of other gods indicates that he, like his father, was an Assyrian vassal. Amon was murdered, and Josiah succeeded him. 2In the Bible, Ahab's governor of Samaria.

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