U of T researchers shed light on ancient Assyrian tablets My beam didn't reach far enough to find them. Glad they were able to illuminate them.
2 Kings 19:34-37
34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
KJV
...between Esarhaddon, King of the Assyrian Empire and a secondary ruler who acknowledged Assyrian power... said Timothy Harrison, professor of near eastern archaeology... "The treaties were designed to secure Ashurbanipal's accession to the throne and avoid the political crisis that transpired at the start of his father's reign. Esarhaddon came to power when his brothers assassinated their father, Sennacherib." ...The researchers hope to glean information about Assyria's imperial relations with the west during a critical period, the early 7th century BCE. It marked the rise of the Phrygians and other rival powers in highland Anatolia -- now modern-day Turkey -- along the northwestern frontier of the Assyrian empire, and coincided with the divided monarchy of Biblical Israel, as well as an era of increased contact between the Levantine peoples of the Eastern Mediterranean and Egypt, as well as the Greeks of the Aegean world.
There's a school of thought that there were *usually* two, three, four, or more independent schismatic Assyrian kingdoms during much of the Assyrian era, which stretches from the dynasty of Akkad (often one will see the referred to as "the Akkadians" and the language as "Akkadian" as if they were a distinct people, which they weren't, give or take natural changes in spoken languages and their customs over such a long period of time) all the way up to and even a little bit past the destruction of Nineveh by an alliance of Babylonians, Scythians, and Medes.
BTW, the name Esarhaddon appears to have wound up as "S.R. Haddon" in the movie "Contact". :')