The land of Armenia was a place most fit for their purpose, because it was near to that part of Assyria, and was very mountainous and inaccessible by armies, and the people more stout and warlike, and constant enemies to the Assyrians. Esarhaddon; who sent great supplies to his new colony in Samaria, Ezra 4:2, fearing, it seems, lest Hezekiah should improve the last great advantage to disturb his new conquests there.
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2 Kings 19:37
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.h And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.