1. Son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, Isaiah 37:38; 2 Kings 19:37 , who, upon returning to Nineveh after his fatal expedition against Hezekiah, was killed by his two sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, through fear, according to Jewish tradition, of being sacrificed to his idol Nisroch. They then fled to the mountains of Armenia, B. C. 713.

2. One of the gods adored by the inhabitants of Sepharvaim, who settled in Samaria, in the stead of those Israelites who were carried beyond the Euphrates. They made their children pass through fire, in honor of this false deity, and of another called Anammelech, 2 Kings 17:31 . Some think that Adrammelech represented the sun, and Anammelech the moon.

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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Adrammelech'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/a/adrammelech.html. 1859.

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