... 'Surely I am not Lailie, nor the ass, but Esarhaddon!' LEV TOLSTOY SHORT STORY Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (In this story Tolstoy has used the names of real people. Esarhaddon (or ... the Bible, under the name of Asnapper ( Ezra iv. 10). Of Lailie history does not tell us much; but in Ernest A. Budge's History of Esarhaddon we read: 'A King, called Lailie, asked ... (or Assur-akhi-iddina) is mentioned three times in the Bible ( 2 Kings xix. 37; Isaiah xxxvii. 38, and Ezra iv. 2), and is also alluded to in 2 Chron. xxiii. 11, as, 'the King of Assyria,...