A god associated with Adrammelech. The people of Sepharvaim worshiped him. The Assyrians relocated the people of Sepharvaim in Samaria after 722 BC.
Anammelech is the Hebrew rendering of the name for a Mesopotamian deity, Anu-melek. The name means “Anu is King.” Anu was the name of the chief god of Assyria, the sky god.
The Sepharvites in Samaria included child sacrifice as a part of their worship of Anu-melek (2 Kings 17:31). The burning of children in the Anu cult may have been brought from Sepharvaim or it may have been something new that developed when the Sepharvites came to Canaan.