Adrammelech

The son of the Assyrian king, Sennacherib. Adrammelech and his brother Sharezer killed their father in the temple of Nisroch in Nineveh (2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38). The nonbiblical text Babylonian Chronicles also talks about this assassination but does not name the sons.

See also Sennacherib.

A god worshiped by the Syrians from Sepharvaim. The Assyrians resettled the Sephavaraim into Samaria. The Sepharvites sacrificed children to Adrammelech (2 Kings 17:31).

See also Mesopotamia; Syria, Syrians.