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The Gods of the Bible
Every named divine being in Scripture, what the text calls it, and what the ancient world thought it was.
Adrammelech and Anammelech
Two gods of resettled foreigners, named in the one verse that says their people burned children to them.
2 Kings 17:31, in every translation this tool compares.
Two gods of resettled foreigners, named in the single verse that records their people burning children to them. Both names end in the word for king, the same element sitting inside Molech's.
The gods of Sepharvaim, named in the one verse that says the settlers burned their children to them. Both names end in the element for "king," as Molech does. DDD reconstructs Adrammelech from West Semitic as addir-melek, "the glorious one is king," a royal divine title attested for Baal himself in a sixth-century BC inscription from Byblos, and not as a corruption of Hadad. Where Sepharvaim was is unresolved between a Syrian and a Babylonian candidate. This deity has nothing to do with the Adrammelech who murders Sennacherib in 2 Kings 19:37, a coincidence of names DDD flags explicitly.
H152, 3 occ; H6048, 1 occ
- 2 Kings 17:31
- DDD s.v. "Adrammelech," 10, note-to-build: both currently `kind: person`
