WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -In the center scene, surrounded by dead corpses, Sennacherib and his remaining troops depart for the city of Nineveh. The story’s climactic ending occurs on the left: Sennacherib’s two sons betray him, stabbing him in the back as he prays before a pagan idol. His death saves the Israelites from Assyrian occupation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Bible records that Hezekiah paid him three hundred talents of silver and thirty of gold as tribute, even sending the doors of the Temple to produce the promised amount, but, even after the payment was made, Sennacherib renewed his assault on Jerusalem.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Assyrian king is killed by the first line of the third stanza, leaving more than half the poem devoted to the effects of his death. Foremost among the images of death is the description of the king’s horse, who gasped so strenuously as he died that foam spewed from his mouth.