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<p> <strong> ADRAMMELECH </strong> . <strong> 1 </strong> . [[Adrammelech]] and [[Anammelech]] (wh. see), the gods of [[Sepharvaim]] to whom the colonists, brought to [[Samaria]] from Sepharvaim, burnt their children in the fire (&nbsp; 2 Kings 17:31 ). There is no good explanation of the name: it was once supposed to be for <em> Adar-malik </em> , ‘Adar the prince.’ But [[Adar]] is not known to be a [[Babylonian]] god, and compound [[Divine]] names are practically unknown, nor were human sacrifices offered to Babylonian gods. </p> <p> <strong> 2 </strong> . Adrammelech and [[Sharezer]] (wh. see) are given in &nbsp; 2 Kings 19:37 as the sons of [[Sennacherib]] who murdered their father. [The <em> [[Kethibh]] </em> of Kings omits ‘his sons’]. The Babylonian Chronicle says: ‘On the 20th of Tebet, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, was killed by his son in an insurrection’; and all other native sources agree in ascribing the murder to one son, but do not name him. Adrammelech is impossible as an [[Assyrian]] personal name, and probably arises here from some corruption of the text. The sons of Sennacherib known to us are Ashur-nâdin-shum, king of Babylon, b.c. 700 694; Esarhaddon, who succeeded his father, b.c. 681; Ardi-Bçlit, Crown Prince, b.c. 694; Ashur-shum-ushabshi, for whom Sennacherib built a palace in Tarbisi; Ashur-ilu-muballitsu, for whom Sennacherib built a palace in Asshur; and Shar-etir-Ashur. Possibly Ardi-Bçlit is intended. </p> <p> [[C. H. W]]  Johns. </p>

<p> 1. Son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, &nbsp;Isaiah 37:38; &nbsp;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. </p> <p> 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, &nbsp;2 Kings 17:31 . Some think that Adrammelech represented the sun, and Anammelech the moon. </p>