Bible Person

Adrammelech

Meaning: the cloak · Male · 1 cross reference

This Adrammelech entry refers to the god worshipped by the Sepharvites, not to the son of Sennacherib who helped assassinate his father. The dataset preserves the deity-name in person style. First appears in 2 Kgs 17:31.1

AI summary: This Adrammelech matters because his single cross reference places the name in the catalogue of foreign worship introduced into Samaria by transplanted peoples. Even as a deity rather than a human figure, the entry helps show the religious mixture that provoked prophetic concern in the land. Taken together, the material presents this Adrammelech as part of the imported cultic landscape of Samaria.1

Central Figure

Adrammelech

Meaning: the cloak

An idol; a form of the sun-god worshipped by the inhabitants of Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:31), and brought by the Sepharvite colonists into Samaria.