Amon (Ἀμών) was the son of Manasseh and king of Judah (ca. 643-641 BC). He appears in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus Christ as an ancestor in the royal line of David.
Amon's presence in Jesus's genealogy is a profound statement about divine grace and sovereign purpose. Amon 'did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done' (2 Kings 21:20) — yet God's covenant promise to David ran through him regardless. The genealogy of Matthew 1 does not sanitize history; it includes murderers, adulterers, foreigners, and wicked kings. This is deliberate: the Messiah comes not through a pristine lineage but through the full, broken humanity He came to save. God's purposes are not derailed by human sin — they run through it, redeeming it. The branch of Jesse grows even through thorned history.