Esarhaddon
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....
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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....
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Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the
fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we
seek your God, as ye [do]; and we do sacrifice unto him since
the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up
hither....
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(Akkadian: Aššur-ahhe-iddina "Ashur has given a brother to
me"; Aramaic: ܐܵܫܘܿܪ ܐܵܗܐܹ ܐܝܼܕܝܼܢܵܐ; Hebrew: אֵסַר חַדֹּן;[1] Ancient
Greek: Ασαραδδων;[2] Latin: Asor Haddan[3]), was a king of
Assyria who reigned 681 – 669 BC. He was the youngest son of
Sennacherib and the Aramean queen Naqi'a (Zakitu),
Sennacherib's second wife......
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e-sar-had'-on ('ecar-chaddon; Assyrian Asur-ach-iddina,
"Ashur hath given a brother"): During his lifetime,
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, made his favorite son,
Esarhaddon (680-668 BC), the viceroy of Babylon; and
although he was not the eldest son, he decreed that he
should become the legal heir to the throne of Assyria.
Sennacherib, having ...
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-(King of Assyria)
-Succeeds Sennacherib
2Ki 19:37; Isa 37:38
-Called Asnapper
Ezr 4:2,10...
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(victor), one of the greatest of the kings of Assyria, was the
son of Sennacherib, 2Ki 19:37 and the grandson of Sargon, who
succeeded Shalmaneser. He appears by his monuments to have
been one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, of
all the Assyrian monarchs. He is the only one of them whom we
find to have actually reigned at Babylo...
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Assur has given a brother, successor of Sennacherib (2 Kings
19:37; Isa. 37:38). He ascended the throne about
B.C. 681.
Nothing further is recorded of him in Scripture,
except that he
settled certain colonists in Samaria (Ezra 4:2). But
from the
monuments it appears that he was the most powerful
of all the
Assyrian monarchs. He built many ...
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Sennacherib's younger son, Sargon's grandson (2 Kings
19:37). frontASSYRIA.) After the murder of his father by his
two sons, Esarhaddon the oldest surviving son succeeded, 680
B.C. The Assyrian inscriptions state that for some months
after his accession he warred with his half brothers
(Rawlinson, Ant. Monarchies, 2:186). The Greek Abydenus
s...
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that closes the point; joy; cheerfulness...
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