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Person · one of several with this name

Amon

Mentioned in 15 verses across 6 books, first in Zephaniah 1:1. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

died c. 640 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Historians also date this period from evidence outside the Bible, and their dates can differ from this reckoning.

Group

Tribe of Judah, Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Parents

Spouse

Jedidah

Children

Josiahson of Amon

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

Josiahson of Amon7 verses
God5 verses
Manasseh (son of Hezekiah)5 verses
Amariahson of Hizkiah1 verse
Cushison of Gedaliah1 verse
Gedaliahson of Amariah1 verse
Haruz1 verse
Meshullemeth1 verse
Uzza1 verse
Hezekiahson of Ahaz1 verse
Zephaniahson of Cushi1 verse
Hizkiah1 verse
Judah (patriarch)1 verse

Places

Where the data places them (born, died, or an event they take part in) first; then places named in the same verses, which does not mean they were there.

Jerusalemborn here; died here +1 more2 shared verses
Uzzascene of “Death of Amon”1 shared verse
Jotbah1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 1 verse in Zephaniah, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Zephaniah

Zephaniah 1:1
This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:

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Events

Events the dataset lists Amon as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 642 BC
Reign of Amon2 Kings 21:19–26 · at Jerusalem
c. 640 BC
Death of Amon2 Kings 21:23 · at Uzza

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

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.55