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Adrammelech

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: A By: George A. Morrish

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1. The god of the Sepharvites, to whom they burnt their children, placed in one of the houses of the high places among the Samaritans (2 Kings 17:31³¹And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. (2 Kings 17:31)). A sort of Adar-Mars, for example, sun-god, who was regarded as a destroying being (Furst).

2. One of the sons of Sennacherib who smote his father with the sword and then fled to the land of Armenia, 2 Kings 19:37³⁷And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. (2 Kings 19:37); Isa. 37:38³⁸And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. (Isaiah 37:38).

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