Armenia

Armenia is the older English name for the highland region north of Mesopotamia that the UPDV consistently renders as Ararat. The same territory the topical literature labels Armenia is what the UPDV calls "the land of Ararat" or "the kingdoms of Ararat." See Ararat for the full treatment of the resting place of the ark, the kingdom summoned against Babylon, and the refuge of Sennacherib's assassins.

The Land Where Sennacherib's Sons Fled

In both parallel accounts of Sennacherib's death, the assassins escape into this northern region. The 2 Kings narrative reads, "And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead" (2Ki 19:37). The Isaiah parallel matches it almost word for word, naming "his sons" explicitly: "And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead" (Isa 37:38).

A Kingdom Mustered Against Babylon

The same region appears in Jeremiah's oracle, listed with the neighboring northern powers: "Set⁺ up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough cankerworm" (Jer 51:27).

In every UPDV occurrence the term is Ararat, not Armenia. The Armenia label survives in older topical indices but is not the wording the UPDV carries.