2 Kings 12:21

12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. 1  He was buried 2  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 19:7

19:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; 3  he will receive 4  a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down 5  with a sword in his own land.”’”

2 Kings 19:37

19:37 One day, 6  as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, 7  his sons 8  Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 9  They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

1 tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”

2 tn Heb “they buried him.”

3 tn Heb “I will put in him a spirit.” The precise sense of רוּחַ (ruakh), “spirit,” is uncertain in this context. It may refer to a spiritual being who will take control of his mind (see 1 Kgs 22:19), or it could refer to a disposition of concern and fear. In either case the Lord’s sovereignty over the king is apparent.

4 tn Heb “hear.”

5 tn Heb “cause him to fall,” that is, “kill him.”

6 sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.

7 sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.

8 tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.

9 sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.