Minnith

Minnith was an Ammonite town east of the Jordan from which Jephthah's great victory over the Ammonites in Gilead reached its limit: "He struck them down from Aroer until you come to Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a very great slaughter" (Judges 11:33). It was here that Jephthah turned back from pursuit, having broken the Ammonite military threat that had oppressed Israel east of the Jordan for eighteen years. Centuries later, Minnith reappears in Ezekiel's great lament for the merchant ships of Tyre: "Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm" (Ezekiel 27:17) — testifying to the agricultural fame of the Ammonite plateau's wheat. The site is identified with Khirbet Hamzeh north of Heshbon or possibly with Umm el-Basatin near Amman.