Person Old Testament
Adrammelech
Also known as Adrammelech =ESV, KJV; Adrammelek =NIV
Adrammelech, son of Assyrian king Sennacherib, assassinated his father. Mentioned in 2 verses across 2 books, first at 2 Kings 19:37.
Why it matters. Son of Sennacherib who murdered his father
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Adrammelech
Adrammelech was one of the sons of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria. After Sennacherib's unsuccessful campaign against Jerusalem, he returned to Nineveh. While worshipping in the temple of his god Nisroch, Adrammelech and his brother Sharezer assassinated their father with the sword. They then escaped to the land of Ararat. Sennacherib's son Esarhaddon succeeded him as king. (2Ki.19.37; Isa.37.38).
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Parents
- Sennacherib
- Siblings
- EsarhaddonSharezer
Appears in Scripture
Named in 2 verses across 2 books. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.