The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-`Ammi. He is the father of the children of `Ammon to this day.
Jeremiah 49:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Of the children of `Ammon. Thus says the LORD: Has Yisra'el no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malkam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities of it? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition CONCERNING and against the Ammonites: Thus says the Lord: Has Israel no sons [to return after their captivity and claim the territory of Gad east of the Jordan which the Ammonites have taken over]? Has [Israel's Gad] no heir? Why then has Milcom [the god the Ammonites call their king] dispossessed and inherited Gad, and [why do] his people dwell in Gad's cities? American Standard Version (1901) Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof? Common English Bible Concerning the Ammonites, the LORD proclaims: Doesn’t Israel have children? Aren’t there heirs to his land? Why then has Milcom taken over Gad? Why have his people settled in its towns? Catholic Public Domain Version Against the sons of Ammon. Thus says the Lord: "Does Israel have no sons? Or is there no heir for him? Then why has Milcom possessed the inheritance of Gad, and why have his people lived in his cities? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? Or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad, and his people dwelt in his cities? |
The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-`Ammi. He is the father of the children of `Ammon to this day.
from the Yarden eastward, all the land of Gil`ad, the Gadi, and the Re'uveni, and the Manashi, from `Aro`er, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gil`ad and Bashan.
The LORD sent against him bands of the Kasdim, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Mo`avim, and bands of the children of `Ammon, and sent them against Yehudah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
It happened after this, that the children of Mo'av, and the children of `Ammon, and with them some of the Me`unim, came against Yehoshafat to battle.
For the children of `Ammon and Mo'av stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Se`ir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Se`ir, everyone helped to destroy another.
But when Sanvallat the Choronite, and Toviyah the servant, the `Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?
But it happened that when Sanvallat, Toviyah, the Arabians, the `Ammonim, and the Ashdodi heard that the repairing of the walls of Yerushalayim went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;
The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
Thus says the LORD against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Yisra'el to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Yehudah from among them.
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and [I will send] to Nevukhadnetzar 1 the king of Bavel, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Mo'av, and to the king of the children of `Ammon, and to the king of Tzor, and to the king of Tzidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Yerushalayim to Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah;
Of Mo'av. Thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Yisra'el: Woe to Nevo 1! for it is laid waste; Kiryatayim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgav is put to shame and broken down.
Of Damascus. Chamat is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.
Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Chatzor, which Nevukhadnetzar 1 king of Bavel struck. Thus says the LORD: Arise you, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
Of Edom. Thus says the LORD of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Yisra'el, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by the LORD and also swear by Malkam,
Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
and when you come near over against the children of `Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of `Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
An `Ammonite or a Mo'avite shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of the LORD forever:
because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Bil`am the son of Be'or from Petor of Aram-Naharayim, to curse you.