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A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge · 1890

Adram'melech (honor of the king), (1) an idol of the Sepharvites whom Shalmaneser brought to Samaria after carrying their inhabitants captive to Assyria. (2 Kings xvii. 31.) (2) A son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, who, with his brother Sharezer, slew their father in the temple of Nisroch, B.C. 721. (2 Kings xix. 37.)

A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Biblical, Biographical, Geographical, Historical, Practical and Theological, Elias Benjamin Sanford, editor (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890). Public domain in the USA. Text from Oldpedia, corrected for Deep Dive Bible. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation.