ADRABIBIELE CH (a-dram'me-16k), (Heb. .
ad-ram-meh'lek, splendor of the king, i.e..
of Mulocni.
(1) An Idol. t. He is mentioned, together with Anammelech, in 2 Kings xvii :31, as one of the idols whose worship the inhabitants of Sepharvaim established in Samaria, when they were trans ferred thither by the king of Assyria, and whom they worshiped by the sacrifice of their children by fire. This constitutes the whole of our certain knowledge of this idol. As to the figure under which this idol was worshiped, the Babylonian Talmud (cited at length in Carpzov's Apparatus, p. 516) asserts that he was adored under that of a mule; whereas Kimchi says it was under that of a peacock; statements upon which little re liance can he placed. There is greater unanimity in the opinion that the power adored under this name was one of the heavenly bodies, in general accordance with the astrological character of the Assyrian idolatry (Gesenius, Icsaia, iii:327 seq.).
(2) Identified with Moloch. Selden (De Diis
Syris i :6) and others have identified him with chiefly on the ground that the sacrifice of children by fire, and the general signification of the name, are the same in both. According, then, to the great difference of opinion concerning Moloch, authorities of nearly equal weight may be adduced for the opinion that Adrammelech represents the planet Saturn, or the Sun,. the kind of sacrifice being the chief argument in favor of the former ; the etymology of the name being that in favor of the latter. (See MoLocit.) (3) A son of Senno.cherib, king of Assyria. The king was dwelling at Nineveh after his disas trous expedition against Iiezekiah. While WM" shiping in the house of Nisroch, his god, Sennach crib was murdered by Adrammelech and his brother Shareza, Ii. C. 68t. After the murder the two brothers fled into Armenia (z. Kings xix :36, 37; Is. xxxvii:38).