One of the foreign gods worshipped by the people of Hamath.
Assyria, after destroying the Northern Kingdom of Israel, forcibly relocated various foreign peoples to Samaria. Ashima was a foreign god worshipped by one of these peoples.
2 Kings 17:27Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and live there and teach them the law of the god of the land.”2 Kings 17:28So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the Lord.2 Kings 17:29But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.2 Kings 17:30The people of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the people of Cuth made Nergal, the people of Hamath made Ashima,2 Kings 17:31and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.2 Kings 17:32They also feared the Lord and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who offered sacrifices for them in the shrines of the high places.