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Anammelech was an Assyrian deity worshiped by the Sepharvites, who were among the foreign peoples settled in Samaria by the Assyrian king.
Anammelech was a deity worshipped by the Sepharvites, one of the foreign peoples transplanted into the territory of Samaria by the Assyrians after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel (2 Kings 17:31). The Sepharvites burned their children in fire as offerings to both Anammelech and Adrammelech, a practice of child sacrifice condemned throughout the Old Testament. Anammelech's name may incorporate the title 'Melek' (king), suggesting a royal divine epithet. His cult represents the syncretistic religions that developed in Samaria as foreign colonists mixed their own worship practices with a distorted form of Yahwism.