Isaiah 37:38

Overview - Isaiah 37
Hezekiah mourning, sends to Isaiah to pray for them.
Isaiah comforts them.
Sennacherib, going to encounter Tirhakah, sends a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah.
14 Hezekiah's prayer.
21 Isaiah's prophecy of the pride and destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion.
36 An angel slays the Assyrians.
37 Sennacherib is slain at Nineveh by his own sons.
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Isaiah 37:38  (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 Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
 


his god
10 ; Isaiah 14:9 Isaiah 14:12 Isaiah 36:15 Isaiah 36:18 2 Kings 19:36 2 Kings 19:37 ; 2 Chronicles 32:14 2 Chronicles 32:19 2 Chronicles 32:21

Armenia
Hebrew Ararat.
Genesis 8:4 ; Jeremiah 51:27

Esar-haddon
Esar-haddon, called Asar-addinus in the Canon of Ptolemy, was the third son of Sennacherib; and having reigned twenty-nine years over the Assyrians, he took advantage of the anarchy and confusion which followed the death of Mesessimordacus, and seized upon Babylon; which he added to his former empire, and reigned over both for thirteen years; when he was succeeded by his son Saosduchinus, A
M. 3336, B.C. 668.
Ezra 4:2