Discovery Box2 Kings 19:7 
Context19:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; 1 he will receive 2 a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down 3 with a sword in his own land.”’”
2 Kings 19:37
Context19:37 One day, 4 as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, 5 his sons 6 Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 7 They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
1 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
2 tn Heb “hear.”
3 tn Heb “cause him to fall,” that is, “kill him.”
4 sn The assassination probably took place in 681
5 sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.
6 tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew
7 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.
