Furthermore, in the Rabshakeh’s addresses, the hero of these conquests is Sennacherib himself (II Kings 18.29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35), and it is only in a different context that his predecessors are mentioned (19.12: ‘the nations which my fathers destroyed’). By contrast, the Chronicler emphasizes that these wide conquests are the work of many Assyrian kings, referred to in the mouth of Sennacherib as ‘I and my fathers’ (vv. 13, 14, 15). For the Chrounicler, then, ‘Assyria’ is not one single king, but an existential threat to the world of nations.
