Ammon
A refuge for highway bandits.
Description
It is in this region that a group of brigands took refuge, who rob the pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem. The Romans hunt them down.
Its name
Rabbath Ammon in Transjordan. Philadelphia. Currently Amman.
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 466
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Capital of the Ammonites, who remained formidable adversaries of Israel for a long time. Becomes, under the name Philadelphia, one of the ten Greek cities of the Decapolis.
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