Then the king said, I will slay my two sons for the Lord’s sake, peradventure I may obtain by them God’s favour, and he will help me. And the saying came to Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons, and they laid in wait for him, and killed him with the sword, at the hour when he went in to pray before his idol Dagon, as it is said, ‘And Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat.’
And it came to pass when Sennacherib, king of Assyria, was dead, that Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. And Esarhaddon appointed Akikar, the son of my brother Hananel, over all that he had, and he ruled over all the land of Assyria. And Akikar spake kind words for me to the king, so that he brought me back to Nineveh, for Akikar was my friend and kinsman. And they restored me my wife Hannah and my son Tobiyyah, for the king of Assyria had commanded them to be seized in his rage against me.