Amon

Amon [Heb.,=trustworthy]. 1 King of Judah (642-640 BC), son and successor of Manasseh. According to Chronicles , 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. 2 In the Bible, Ahab's governor of Samaria.

Amon , Ammon , or Amen , Egyptian deity. He was originally the chief god of Thebes; he and his wife Mut and their son Khensu were the divine Theban triad of deities. Amon grew increasingly important in Egypt, and eventually he (identified as Amon Ra; see Ra ) became the supreme deity. He was identified with the Greek Zeus (the Roman Jupiter). Amon's most celebrated shrine was at Siwa in the Libyan desert; the oracle of Siwa later rivaled those of Delphi and Dodona. He is frequently represented as a ram or as a human with a ram's head.

Amon King of Judah (642–640 BCE), father of Josiah. He was murdered apparently by opponents of his policy of appeasement with Assyria, for which the Chronicler (2 Chr. 33: 23) sheds no tears.