Ammon (III)

III. AMMON, or Ben-Ammi, the Son of Lot, born of this Patriarch and his youngest Daughter, in the year of the Gen. xix. 34, 38.World 2107, before J.C. 1893, before the vulgar Æra 1897. We know no particulars of Ammon’s life. The place of his abode was to the East of the Dead Sea and Jordan, in the Mountains of Gilead. He was the Father of the Ammonites, a famous People always at enmity with the Israelites.

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