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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Nisroch (A male deity in the Old Testament)
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, was killed by his own sons in the temple of Nisroch, an Assyrian god and not a man at all.
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, was killed by his own sons in the temple of Nisroch, an Assyrian god and not a man at all.
Nisroch was not a person but a god in the Assyrian pantheon, worshiped with the head of an eagle, in whose temple King Sennacherib of Assyria was assassinated by his own sons (2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38). The god's name does not correspond cleanly to any deity known from surviving Assyrian records, and it may be a scribal corruption of another god's name such as Nusku. Sennacherib's murder itself is corroborated outside the Bible: the Babylonian Chronicle and later Assyrian records confirm he was killed by one of his own sons in a palace coup.
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- 2 Kings 19:37
- Isaiah 37:38
