In Isaiah 37, King Sennacherib tries to destroy the Northern two-tribe Kingdom, but Jehovah protects them from the Assyrian empire. King Sennacherib returns to Assyria, begins bowing down to his god Nisrock, but then is all of a sudden killed by his two sons.
It seems to be difficult to find much of a political context to all this — why did King Sennacherib’s two sons suddenly kill him? Did they have some vendetta against him? It ended up being one of his other sons who got the throne also, so clearly inheriting the throne couldn’t have been a reason either.







