Crossword-Solution: NISROCH 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Then the King stood up in his royal robes with his high, narrow crown on his head and shouted— “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.

Sennacherib was murdered in the year 720 by two of his sons, while worshipping his god Nisroch; and another son, Esarhaddon, became king.

Therefore I will put my ring through thy nose, And my bridle between thy lips, And will make thee return, By the way in which thou hast come." Not long after this, while Sennacherib was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch, in Nineveh, he was attacked by his own sons and killed, and Esarhaddon, one of his sons, succeeded him on the throne of Assyria.

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 Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.'--2 KINGS xix.

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 Esarhaddon his you reigned in his stead.'--ISAIAH xxxvii.