Adrammelech

Uh-dram´uh-lek

1 A deity to whom human sacrifices were offered. He was one of the gods worshiped by the Sepharvites who were resettled in Samaria by the Assyrian ruler Sargon around 720 BCE (2Kgs 17:31). 2 One of the sons of the Assyrian ruler Sennacherib who, with the help of his brother Sharezer, assassinated his father in 681 BCE and fled to Ararat (2Kgs 19:37; Isa 37:38).