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Melchom is a demon or spirit in the Dictionnaire Infernal. It is the god or idol of the Ammonites, otherwise called Milcom, Moloch, and Melech: which in Hebrew signifies a king, and Melchom signifies their unearthly king, referring to their unholy idol, Melchom. The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary reads:
In the 3rd-century Gnostic text Acts of Thomas, Abaddon is the name of a demon, or the devil himself. Abaddon is given particularly important roles in two sources, a homily entitled The Enthronement of Abaddon by pseudo- Timothy of Alexandria , and the Book of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, by Bartholomew the Apostle .
Beelzebub from the Dictionnaire Infernal "Beelzebub and them that are with him shoot arrows" from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678). Beelzebub or Ba'al Zebub (/ b iː ˈ ɛ l z ə b ʌ b, ˈ b iː l-/ [1] bee-EL-zə-bub, BEEL-; Hebrew: בַּעַל־זְבוּב Baʿal-zəḇūḇ), also spelled Beelzebul or Belzebuth, and occasionally known as the Lord of the Flies, is a name ...
Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4:17 Name: Delbora source: Golden Legend, [3] which also tells stories about many of the saints. Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4 See also: Balbira and Kalmana, Azura and Awan for alternate traditions of names.
The name "Astaroth" as a male demon is first seen in The Book of Abramelin, purportedly written in Hebrew c. 1458, and recurred in most occult grimoires of the following centuries. Astaroth also features as an archdemon associated with the qlippoth (adverse forces) according to later Kabbalistic texts, as he rules over the qlippa of Jupiter ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges. The New International Version translates the passage as: And if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.
The name is unknown in Mesopotamian sources, but it has been tentatively identified as the god of agriculture. [7] If "Nisroch" is Ninurta, this would make Ninurta's temple at Kalhu the most likely location of Sennacherib's murder. [6] Other scholars have attempted to identify Nisroch as Nusku, the Assyrian god of fire. [1]
Shedim were not considered evil demigods, but the gods of foreigners; further, they were envisaged as evil only in the sense that they were not God. [6] They appear only twice (and in both instances in the plural) in the Tanakh, at Psalm 106:37 and Deuteronomy 32:17. In both instances, the text deals with child sacrifice or animal sacrifice.