Amon

1) The son of Manasseh king of Judah by Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz, who reigned as king of Judah for only two short years, c.642-640. We know nothing of him apart from what Scriptures say, which does not paint a pretty picture. The Chronicler, who is usually more generous than the author of Kings, adds this note about Amon: "He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done . . . But unlike his father Manasseh, he did not humble himself before the Lord; Amon increased his guilt" (2 Chron 33:22-23). Amon was assassinated in his palace by his own officers, and succeeded by his eight-year-old son Josiah. The name, sharing the same root as the word for "amen," means 'faithful'; Amon, of course, was none of that.

2) Two other persons by this name are reported in the OT. One is a descendant of one of Solomon's servants who returned to Jerusalem at the end of the exile (Neh 7:59), and the other is the governor of the city—some scholars identify the city as Samaria, though we cannot be sure—to which Ahad had ordered the prophet Micaiah to be sent and kept prisoner until he returned from the war against Aram (1 Ki 22:26; 2 Chron 18:25). Of them we know nothing.

3) The Egyptian deity, mentioned only once in the OT in one of Jeremiah's oracle of judgment against Egypt (Jer 46:25). Better known as Amun or Amun-Re, this deity is the focus of the most complex theological systems in ancient Egypt. His name means "the secret one" or "the hidden one" and speaks of his absolute transcendence, and the myths about him claim that his real name is unknown as is his essence. He has been worship in Egypt since at least the Old Kingdom period. His cult came eventually to be centered at Thebes (or No as the city is known in Hebrew).