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'''Ammon''' ({{Hebrew Name|עַמּוֹן|Ammon|ʻAmmôn|"People"}}; {{lang-ar-at|a=عمّون|t=ʻAmmūn}}; {{lang-gr|Αμμονιοι|lit=Ammonites|translit=Ammonioi}}) was a [[Semitic languages|Semitic-speaking]] kingdom from the [[Bronze Age]] period occupying the east of the [[Jordan River]], between the torrent valleys of [[Wadi Mujib|Arnon]] and [[Jabbok]], in present-day [[Jordan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ancient Texts Relating to the Bible: Amman Citadel|url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/ancient_texts/Citadel.shtml|accessdate=2011-01-11|publisher=[[University of Southern California]]| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20101126125659/http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/ancient_texts/Citadel.shtml| archivedate= 26 November 2010 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The archaeology of society in the Holy Land |last1=Levy |first1=Tom|last2=LaBianca|first2=Øystein S.|last3=Younker|first3=Randall W.|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |year=1998 |page=399 |isbn=978-0-8264-6996-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-etsKv-4V2oC&pg=PA399&lpg=PR6&vq=ammon&output=html}}</ref> The chief city of the country was ''[[Rabbah]]'' or ''Rabbath Ammon'', site of the modern city of [[Amman]], Jordan's capital. [[Moloch|Milcom]] and [[Moloch|Molech]] (who may be one and the same) are named in the [[Hebrew Bible]] as the gods of Ammon. The people of this kingdom are called "'''Children of Ammon'''" or "'''Ammonites'''".