2 Kings 19:37

And it came to pass, as he was prostrating himself in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Essar-chaddon his son became king in his stead.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

In Context

36And Sennacherib the king of Assyria then departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:31For not as our Rock is their rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

2 Kings 18:5In the Lord the God of Israel did he trust; and after him there was not his like among all the kings of Judah, nor among those that were before him.

2 Kings 19:7Behold, I will put an [other] spirit in him, that when he will hear a rumor, he shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

2 Chronicles 32:14Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, was it, that was able to deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

2 Chronicles 32:21And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off every mighty man of valor and leader and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria: and when he was returned with shame of face to his own land, he went into the house of his god, and [those] that were come forth from his own bowels felled him there with the sword.

Isaiah 37:37And Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 19:36-37

The Assyrian Army Destroyed. ( b. c. 710.) 35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they… Read the whole commentary →

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