Fifty days had not gone by when Sennacherib’s two sons killed him; they fled into the mountains of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. He appointed Ahikar, son of my brother Anael, over all the accounts of his kingdom and over the whole administration.
In context
19But one of the men of Nineveh went and informed on me to the king, that I was the one burying them, and I hid myself. When I realized that I was being hunted down to be killed, I took fright and got away. 20Everything I owned was plundered, and nothing was left to me but Anna my wife and Tobias my son. 21Fifty days had not gone by when Sennacherib’s two sons killed him; they fled into the mountains of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. He appointed Ahikar, son of my brother Anael, over all the accounts of his kingdom and over the whole administration. 22Ahikar put in a plea for me, and I came back to Nineveh. Now Ahikar was cupbearer and keeper of the signet, administrator and accountant, and Esarhaddon set him second in the kingdom; he was my nephew.
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