Adrammelech

Adrammelech was a deity worshipped by the Sepharvites, a people group transported by the Assyrians into the territory of Samaria after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel (2 Kings 17:31). The Sepharvites burned their children in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and his companion deity Anammelech. This practice, explicitly condemned in the Old Testament, represented the syncretistic religion that developed in Samaria as foreign colonists mingled Yahweh-worship with their own cultic traditions. Adrammelech's cult is one of several foreign deities mentioned in this passage as examples of Israel's religious corruption.