Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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 sons smote
Armenia
Esar-haddon
Bible References
Nisroch
2 Kings 19:10
"Thus you shall say to Hezekiah the king of Judah, 'Let not your God whom you [are] trusting deceive you, by his saying, "Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!"
2 Kings 18:5
He trusted in Yahweh the God of Israel; there was no one like him, before or after, among all the kings of Judah.
Deuteronomy 32:31
For the fact of the matter is, their rock [is] not like our Rock, and our enemies recognize [this].
2 Chronicles 32:14
Who among all the gods of those nations whom my ancestors utterly destroyed was able to save his people from my hand, that your God will be able to save you from my hand?
Isaiah 37:37
Then Sennacherib king of Assyria left, went, and returned and lived at Nineveh.
His sons smote
2 Kings 19:7
Look, I [am] putting in him a spirit. He will hear a rumor and return to his land. Then I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land." '"
2 Chronicles 32:21
Then Yahweh sent an angel, and he destroyed every mighty warrior of strength, commander, and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. And he returned with shamed face to his land and went into the house of his god. And some of the offspring of his loins fell upon him there with the sword.
Armenia
Genesis 8:4
And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
Jeremiah 51:27
Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon [the] nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses like bristling creeping locusts.
Esar-haddon
Ezra 4:2
And they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the {families}, and they said to them, "Let us build with you. Like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing [to him] from the days of Esarhaddon the king of Assyria who brought us up here.