The sacred history would seem to imply that this disastrous end came at once; but here twenty years of ignominy count for nothing.
“The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind to powder.” Sennacherib died in 681 B.C., some twelve years after Hezekiah. (B. Blake, B. D.)
Sennacherib’s sons
The two parricides fled to the land of Ararat, therefore to Central Armenia; Armenian history derives the tribes of the Sassunians and Arzrunians from them. From the royal house of the latter, among whom the proper name Sennacherib was common, sprang Leo the Armenian, whom Genesius describes as of Assyrio-Armenian blood. If this is so, no fewer than ten Byzantine emperors may be regarded as descendants of Sennacherib. (F. Delitzsch, D. D.)
Humiliation of Napoleon I.
Napoleon said that “God was always on the side of the biggest battalions,” and God flung the lie back into his teeth. (S. K. Hocking.)
The end of worldly ambition
Take the greatest rulers that ever sat upon a throne. Alexander, who wept because there were no more nations left to conquer, at last set fire to a city and died in debauch. Hannibal died from poison administered by himself. Caesar, having conquered three hundred cities, was stabbed by his best friends. (G. S. Bowes.)
