After this he went thence in haste against the Ammonites who had a great and a numerous army, of which Timotheus was the commander.

The Ammonites' god was Ammon, the hidden god, the lord of their sheep and cattle.

With heroic valor he delivered Jabesh-Gilead from the hosts of the Ammonites when that city was about to fall into their hands, and silenced the envy of his enemies.

The campaign was conducted by Joab, who gained brilliant victories, without however crushing the Ammonites, who again rallied with a vast array of mercenaries gathered in their support.

This war of the Edomites took place simultaneously with that of the Ammonites, who, deprived of their allies, retreated with desperation to their strong capital,Rabbah Ammon, twenty-eight hundred feet above the sea, and twenty miles east of the Jordan,where they made a memorable but unsuccessful resistance.

Its territorial extent was small compared with the Assyrian or Persian empire; but it had already defeated the surrounding nations,the Philistines, the Edomites, the Syrians, and the Ammonites.

A joint embassy was sent from Edom, from Moab, the Ammonites, and the kings of Tyre and Sidon, to Jerusalem, with the hope that Zedekiah would unite with them in shaking off the Babylonian yoke; and these intrigues were encouraged by Egypt.

When the tide has exposed the scaur which runs out from Colburn Nab, at the mouth of the beck, a one can examine masses of recently fallen rocks, the new faces of which are almost invariably covered with ammonites or clusters of fossil bivalves.

The legend of his inspiration, however, may be placed beside the story of how the saintly Abbess turned the snakes into the fossil ammonites with which the liassic shores of Whitby are strewn.

The emigration headed by Abraham soon developed a mass of barbarism,Lot giving rise to the Moabites and the Ammonites; meanwhile, Abraham throwing off upon the world in his son Ishmael another stock of barbariansthe Arabs,a name which according to some signifies Westerners.

[NOTE.I-nis'-kims are usually small Ammonites, or sections of Baculites, or sometimes merely oddly shaped nodules of flint.

The Geological Society has a series of ammonites from India.

In the Scaur, below East Cliff, ammonites are to be found.

There are many references in Lamentations and Ezekiel to the persecutions to which they were subjected by their malignant foes, the Moabites and Ammonites on the east and the Philistines on the west.

But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem was progressing, so that the breaches began to be stopped, they were very angry.

On the east the Ammonites had apparently pressed in and occupied the ancient Hebrew territory as far as the Jordan.

Then he passed over to the Ammonites and found a strong force and many people, with Timotheus as their leader.

His chief enemy on the east was Timotheus, the leader of the Ammonites against whom Judas was successful in the preliminary skirmishes.

Not only the Samaritans in the north, but the men of Ashdod from the west, the Arabians from the south, and the Ammonites from the east, are gathering together against Jerusalem.

The Samaritans, the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, and a host of others were ready at any moment to pounce down upon the Jews.

"Among the Edomites, Ishmaelites, Ammonites and Moabitesthe tribes with which Israel felt itself most nearly relatedthe service of the rigorous and destroying god was most prominent The very names for God which are most common among themBaal, El, Molech, Milcom, Chemoshare enough to show this.

The reptiles, not usually susceptible to the voice of the charmer, were at her intercession turned into stonea fact to which the ammonites in the local quarry bear witness.

AMMONITES, a Semitic race living E. of the Jordan; at continual feud with the Jews, and a continual trouble to them, till subdued by Judas Maccabæus.

AMMONITES, a genus of fossil shells curved into a spiral form like the ram-horn on the head of the image of Ammon.

Incidentally it also deals with the relationship between the Hebrews and their neighbors, the Moabites, across the Jordan and the Dead Sea, for Lot in these earlier stories stands as the traditional ancestor of the Moabites and Ammonites.