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'By the beak of Nisroch, ask what you will, strangers from the land where the sun never sets! 'We ought to say it's enough honour, like the dancer did, whispered Anthea. 'No, let's ask for IT, said Robert. 'No, no, I'm sure the other's manners, said Anthea.
'UR HEKAU SETCHEH, she cried in a fervent voice. 'Oh, Nisroch, servant of the Great Ones, come and help us! There was a waiting silence. Then a cold, blue light awoke in the corner where the straw was and in the light they saw coming towards them a strange and terrible figure.
Sennacherib, in rage and fury, cruelly persecuted the Israelites at Nineveh for their connection with the Jews; and then it was that the pious Tobit buried the corpses that were cast in the street until he lost his sight, afterwards so wonderfully restored. Sennacherib was murdered in the year 720 by two of his sons, while worshipping his god Nisroch; and another son, Esarhaddon, became king.
And when men arose early the next morning, these were all dead. Then Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went away and returned to Nineveh. While he was worshipping in the temple of Nisroch his god, his sons struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon, his son, became king in his place.
Here, too, the political situation is always the chief factor, and it is only incidentally that the religion comes into play, as when it is said that Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, was murdered while worshipping in the temple dedicated to a deity, Nisroch; or when a prophet, to intensify the picture of the degradation to which the proud king of Babylon is to be reduced, introduces Babylonian conceptions of the nether world into his discourse.
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