2 Kings 19:35

"And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineveh. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead."

Some scholars like to point out that the actual assassination of Sennacherib took place nearly twenty years later in 681 B.C., but, so what? 2 Kings 19:36 states clearly enough that he "dwelt in Nineveh," indicating a time-lapse before his murder. We learn from Isaiah 37:38 that the two assassins named here were actually the sons of Sennacherib.

The paganism of Sennacherib appears in the name Adrammelech, which was also the name of a pagan god (2 Kings 19:17:31). Whatever was the motive for this parricide by Sennacherib's sons, it was not motivated by a desire to succeed him; for they promptly fled to a distant land. There is a traditional report that both of these sons of Sennacherib set up powerful dynasties that ruled in what is now Armenia.

We are impressed with what Homer Hailey stated, namely, that, "Isaiah himself might have written this section of Kings."[22] This harmonizes with what we have frequently mentioned, namely, that it was God's prophets who were the authors of the material in the historical books, a viewpoint also affirmed and supported by Josephus. No one was any better qualified than Isaiah to have given us these chapters in 2Kings, along with their near-duplications in 2Kings 36,2 Kings 37 of the Prophecy of Isaiah.