Bible Verses About Ammonites

Vanyah, M'remot, Elyashiv,

Mattanyah, Matnai, Ya'asai,

Bani, Binui, Shim'i,

Shelemyah, Natan, 'Adayah,

Makhnavdai, Shashai, Sharai,

'Azar'el, Shelemyah, Sh'maryah,

Shalum, Amaryah and Yosef; and

of the descendants of N'vo: Ye'i'el, Mattityah, Zavad, Z'vina, Yadai, Yo'el and B'nayah.

All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had had children.

But when Sanvalat, Toviyah, the Arabs, the 'Amonim and the Ashdodim heard that the repairs on the walls of Yerushalayim were going forward, and the breaks were being filled in, they became very angry.

All of them together plotted to come and fight against Yerushalayim and thus throw us into confusion.

"The days are coming," says ADONAI, "when I will punish all those who have been circumcised in their uncircumcision -

Egypt, Y'hudah, Edom, the people of 'Amon and Mo'av, and all those living in the desert who cut the edges [of their beard]: "For although all the Goyim are uncircumcised, all the house of Isra'el have uncircumcised hearts."

"For here is what ADONAI the God of Isra'el says to me: 'Take this cup of the wine of fury from my hand, and make all the nations where I am sending you drink it.

They will drink, stagger to and fro and behave like crazy people because of the sword that I will send among them.'"

Then I took the cup from ADONAI's hand and made all the nations drink, where ADONAI had sent me -

Yerushalayim and the cities of Y'hudah, along with their kings and leaders, to make them a ruin and an object of horror, ridicule and cursing, as it is today;

Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants and leaders and all his people, both native

and foreign; all the kings of the land of 'Utz; all the kings of the land of the P'lishtim, Ashkelon, 'Azah, 'Ekron and those remaining in Ashdod;

Edom, Mo'av, and the people of 'Amon;

At the beginning of the reign of Y'hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y'hudah, this word came to Yirmeyahu from ADONAI:

"ADONAI says this to me: 'Make yourself a yoke of straps and crossbars, and put it on your neck.

Send [similar yokes] to the kings of Edom, of Mo'av, of the people of 'Amon, of Tzor, and of Tzidon by means of the envoys they send to Yerushalayim, and to Tzidkiyahu king of Y'hudah.

Give them this message for their masters by telling their envoys that ADONAI-Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, says for them to tell their masters:

"'"I made the earth, humankind, and the animals on the earth by my great power and my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.