The Ammonites remember, sprung from Abraham’s nephew Lot and his younger daughter (Gen. 19:38; Psa. 83:7-8).

 

The god they worshipped was Molech (Milcom & Malcham are variations of; Zep. 1:5; 2Sa. 12:30).

 

Ammon and Moab (the Moabites remember, sprung from Abraham’s nephew Lot and his oldest daughter; Gen. 19:37; Psa. 83:6), often appear together.

 

Both are said to have hired Balaam (Deu. 13:4).

 

The land from the Arnon River to Jabbok is assigned to both Ammon and Moab (Jud. 11:12-18 & 25).

 

The Ammonites are credited with destroying the giants, whom they called “Zamzummims” (Deu. 2:20-21 & 37).

 

They were a Bedouin-like tribe, known for plundering, with threats such as thrusting out the right eye of all in Jabesh Gilead (1Sa. 11:2).  Ripping up pregnant women in Gilead (Amos 1:13).  Murdering people (Jer. 40:14; 41:5-7).  Suspecting and insulting their ally David (2Sa. 10:1-5; 12:31).

 

The Ammonites only had one stronghold, Rabbah (Jer. Chp. 48).

 

They crossed the Jordan and seized the city of Jericho (Beth Yerah, House of the Moon god) for a time (Jud. 3:13).

 

Jephthah the judge and Saul the king sorely punished them (Jed. 11:33; 1Sa. 11:11).

 

In king Jehoshaphat’s reign, Ammon joined with Moab in the expedition for uprooting Judah from its possession (2Ch. Chp. 20; Psa. 83:3-7).

 

They had to bring gifts to king Uzziah (2Ch. 26:8).

 

King David received silver and gold in payment from them (1Ch. 18:11).

 

King Jotham reduced them to pay tributes of 100 talents of silver, 10,000 measures of wheat, and 10,000 of barley (2Ch. 27:5).

 

Ammon seized the cities of Gad from which Tiglath Pileser hd taken from the Israelites (Jer. 49:1-6; Zep. 2:8-9).

 

On the return of Israel to rebuild Jerusalem, Tobiah, who was an Ammonite, joined with Sanballat, of Horonaim of Moab, in opposing Nehemiah’s restoration of the city walls (Neh. 2:10 & 19).

 

Naamah, Solomon’s wife, mother of Rehoboam, was an Ammonite (1Ki. 14:21).

 

Solomon’s Ammonite wives seduced him to rear an altar to this “abomination,” god (Jer. 49:1 & 3).

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In a side note, whenever the Bible mentions “The king of Ammon,” there is evidence in a few instances that it could be that this king is also the king of the Moabites.  That is how closely the two tribes were associated with each other.

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