NISROCH, or Nesroch, a God of the Assyrians. Sennecharib was killed by two of his Sons, while he was paying his Adoration to his God Nisroch in his Temple1, 2 Kings xix. 37. ‘Tis not known who this God Nisroch was. The Seventy call him Mesrach, Josephus calls him Araskes. The Hebrew of Tobit published by Munster calls him Dagon.
The Name of this Deity may be traced in the Words Sarac, and Sargon, Kings of Assyria. And perhaps Sarac is also the same as Sarak. But nothing of this will inform us who this God Nisroch was.
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In the Year of the World 3294, before Christ 706, before the vulgar Æra 710. ↩