builder. (1.) The governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was committed to his custody (1-Kings 22:26; 2-Chr 18:25).
(2.) The son of Manasseh, and fourteenth king of Judah. He restored idolatry, and set up the images which his father had cast down. Zephaniah (1:4;3:4, 3: 11) refers to the moral depravity prevailing in this king's reign.
He was assassinated (2-Kings 21:18: 2-Chr 33:20) by his own servants, who conspired against him.
(3.) An Egyptian god, usually depicted with a human body and the head of a ram, referred to in Jer. 46:25, Jer. 46: where the word "multitudes" in the Authorized Version is more appropriately rendered "Amon" in the Revised Version. In Nah. 3:8 the expression "populous No" of the Authorized version is rendered in the Revised Version "No-amon." Amon is identified with Ra, the sun-god of Heliopolis.