Hena

Hena was a city in upper Mesopotamia, on the Euphrates near Sippar, that had been crushed by the Assyrian empire before Sennacherib's march on Jerusalem. The Rabshakeh — Sennacherib's chief field commander — used Hena in his psychological warfare against the besieged city: "Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?" (2 Kings 18:34, repeated in 19:13 and Isaiah 37:13). The mention was designed to terrify Jerusalem by listing previous victims of Assyrian conquest. The Lord's answer came that night — the angel of the Lord struck down 185,000 of Sennacherib's troops, and Sennacherib went home to Nineveh, where his sons assassinated him in the temple of Nisroch.