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Adrammelech. [Adram'melech]


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: 31. A sort of Adar-Mars, i.e., sun-god, who was

regarded as a destroying being (Fürst).


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: 37; Isa. 37: 38.