The king himself often witnessed the labors, standing in his chariot, which on these occasions was drawn by some of his attendants.
The Assyrian monuments throw but little light on the circumstances which led to the assassination of Sennacherib; and we are reduced to conjecture the causes of so strange an event.

Our various sources of information make it clear that he had a large family of sons.

The eldest of them, Asshurinadi-su, had been entrusted by Sennacherib with the government of Babylon and might reasonably have expected to succeed him on the throne of Assyria; but it is probable that he died before his father, either by a natural death, or by violence, during one of the many Babylonian revolts.

It may be suspected that Sennacherib had a second son, of whose name Nergal was the first element; and it is certain that he had three others, Adrammelech (or Ardumuzanes), Sharezer, and Esar-haddon.

Perhaps, upon the death of Asshur-inadi-su, disputes arose about the succession.