Commentary for Sanhedrin 190:15

אמר רבי אבהו אלמלא מקרא כתוב אי אפשר לאמרו דכתיב (ישעיהו ז, כ) ביום ההוא יגלח ה' בתער השכירה בעברי נהר במלך אשור את הראש ושער הרגלים וגם את הזקן תספה

Had he not seen [an angel], how did he know [his appearance]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence he must have been present when Gabriel destroyed the army. — The speaker is Nebuchadnezzar. ');">³⁹</span> Sennacherib and his two sons, as it is written, And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Kings XIX, 37. It is assumed that they all must have been in the army before Jerusalem. ');">⁴⁰</span> R. Abbahu said: Were not the [following] verse written, it would have been impossible to conceive of it: viz., In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by the riverside, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall consume the beard.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. VII, 20. ');">⁴¹</span>

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