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 say to Hezekiah king of Juda, 'Let not thy God carry thee out of the way, in whom thou so trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:5
He trusted in the LORD God of Israel, so that after him came none like him among all the kings of Judah, neither among them that went before him.
Deuteronomy 32:31
"For our rock is not as their rock; no, though our enemies be judge.
2 Chronicles 32:14
Which of all the gods was it, of those nations that my fathers destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
Isaiah 37:37
So Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians brake up, and dwelt at Nineveh.
His sons smote
2 Kings 19:7
For I will send him a blast that he shall hear tidings, and so return to his own land: And I will overthrow him with the sword even in his own land.'"
2 Chronicles 32:21
And the LORD sent an angel and destroyed all the men of war and the lords and captains of the host of the king of Assyria, that he turned his face, with shame, towards his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, he was there overthrown with the sword - even by them that issued out of his bowels.
Armenia
Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat, the seventeenth day of the seventh month.
Jeremiah 51:27
Set up a token in the land, blow the trumpets among the Heathen, provoke the nations against her, call the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz against her: set the prince against her, bring as great a sort of horses against her, as if they were grasshoppers.
Esar-haddon
Ezra 4:2
they came to Zerubbabel and to the principal fathers, and said unto them, "We will build with you: for we seek the Lord your God like as ye do. And we have done sacrifice unto him, since the time that Esarhaddon the king of Assyria brought us up hither."