Merodach-baladan
At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had
heard that he had been sick, and was recovered....
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Marduk-apla-iddina II (the biblical Merodach-Baladan, also
called Marduk-Baladan, Baladan and Berodach-Baladan. lit.
Marduk has given me an Heir.) (reigned 722 BC – 710 BC, 703 BC
– 702 BC) was a Chaldean prince who usurped the Babylonian
throne in 721 BC. Marduk-apla iddina II was also known as one
of the brave kings who maintained Babylonian...
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me-ro'-dak-bal'-a-dan, mer'-o-dak-b. (mero'dhakh bal'adhan;
Marodach Baladan): The son of Baladan, is mentioned in Isa
39:1, as a king of Babylon who sent an embassy to Hezekiah,
king of Judah, apparently shortly after the latter's
illness, in order to congratulate him on his recovery of
health, and to make with him an offensive and defensive ...
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-Called BERODACH-BALADAN, King of Persia
-Sends congratulatory letters and a present to Hezekiah
2Ki 20:12; Isa 39:1...
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(worshipper of Baal) is mentioned as king of Babylon in the
days of Hezekiah both in the second hook of Kings, ch. 2Ki
20:12 and in Isaiah. ch. Isa 39:1 In the former place he is
called Berodach-baladan. The name of Merodach-baladan has been
recognized in the Assyrian inscriptions. It appears there were
two reigns of this king, the first from ...
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Merodach has given a son, (Isa. 39:1), "the hereditary chief
of
the Chaldeans, a small tribe at that time settled in
the marshes
at the mouth of the Euphrates, but in consequence of
his
conquest of Babylon afterwards, they became the
dominant caste
in Babylonia itself." One bearing this name sent
ambassadors to
Hezekiah (B.C. 721). He is ...
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From the idol Merodach and Baladan ("Bel is his lord"). Read
in the Assyrian inscriptions Mardoc Erapad, or Empalin
Ptolemy's canon, Merodach Baldan in Polyhistor (Eusebius,
Chron. Can. 1; 5:1). Reigned twice in Babylon with an
interval between. Warred with Sargon and Sennacherib
successively, having thrown off allegiance to them; so
naturall...
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