Merodach-baladan (2 Occurrences)

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Bible Concordance

2 Kings 20:12 At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill. (BBE NIV)

Isaiah 39:1 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. (ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Thesaurus

Merodachbaladan (1 Occurrence)
... worldly point of view good politics for Hezekiah and his western allies to come
to an understanding with Merodach-Baladan and the ...Merodachbaladan (1 Occurrence ...
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Merodach-baladan (2 Occurrences)
... << Merodachbaladan, Merodach-baladan. Mer'odach-bal'adan >>. Easton's Bible Dictionary ... <<
Merodachbaladan, Merodach-baladan. Mer'odach-bal'adan >>. Reference Bible
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Baladan (2 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary He has given a son, the father of the Babylonian
king (2 Kings 20:12; Isaiah 39:1) Merodach-baladan (qv). Int. ...
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Chaldeans (82 Occurrences)
... Chaldaioi): 1. Geographical Position Seats of the Chaldeans 2. Originally
Sumero-Akkadian 3. History of the Chaldean Tribes 4. Merodach-baladan and Sargon ...
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Chaldea (8 Occurrences)
... Chaldaioi): 1. Geographical Position Seats of the Chaldeans 2. Originally
Sumero-Akkadian 3. History of the Chaldean Tribes 4. Merodach-baladan and Sargon ...
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Sargon (1 Occurrence)
...Merodach-baladan of Kaldu, who paid tribute to previous rulers, on the change of ...
In 710 BC Sargon directed his attention to Merodachbaladan, who no longer ...
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Sennacherib (13 Occurrences)
... by name. He ruled only a month, having been driven out by the irrepressible
Merodach-baladan, who again appeared on the scene. In ...
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Illness (15 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 20:12 At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah ...
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Mer'odach-bal'adan (1 Occurrence)
Mer'odach-bal'adan. << Merodach-baladan, Mer'odach-bal'adan. Mero'dach-bal'adan >>. ...
(See RSV). << Merodach-baladan, Mer'odach-bal'adan. Mero'dach-bal'adan >>. ...
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Hezekiah (124 Occurrences)
... in 2 Kings 20:1, 2 Chronicles 32:24, Isaiah 38:1. Various ambassadors came to
congratulate him on his recovery, and among them Merodach-baladan, the viceroy of ...
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Hitchcock's Bible Names

Merodach-Baladan

bitter contrition, without judgment

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

MERODACH-BALADAN

me-ro'-dak-bal'-a-dan, mer'-o-dak-b. (mero'dhakh bal'adhan; Marodach Baladan): The son of Baladan, is mentioned in Isaiah 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 alliance. This Merodach-baladan was a king of the Chaldeans of the house of Yakin, and was the most dangerous and inveterate foe of Sargon and his son Sennacherib, kings of Assyria, with whom he long and bitterly contested the possession of Babylon and the surrounding provinces. Merodach-Baladan seems to have seized Babylon immediately after the death of Shalmaneser in 721 B.C.; and it was not till the 12th year of his reign that Sargon succeeded in ousting him. From that time down to the 8th campaign of Sennacherib, Sargon and his son pursued with relentless animosity Merodach-Baladan and his family until at last his son Nabushumishkun was captured and the whole family of Merodach-Baladan was apparently destroyed. According to the monuments, therefore, it was from a worldly point of view good politics for Hezekiah and his western allies to come to an understanding with Merodach-Baladan and the Arameans, Elamites, and others, who were confederated with him. From a strategical point of view, the weakness of the allied powers consisted in the fact that the Arabian desert lay between the eastern and western members of the confederacy, so that the Assyrian kings were able to attack their enemies when they pleased and to defeat them in detail.

R. Dick Wilson

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Merodach has given a son, (Isaiah 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 also called Berodach-baladan (2 Kings 20:12; 2 Chronicles 20:31). (see HEZEKIAH.)

Strong's Hebrew

4757. Merodak Baladan -- a king of Babylon
... a king of Babylon. Transliteration: Merodak Baladan Phonetic Spelling: (mer-o-dak'
bal-aw-dawn') Short Definition: Merodach-baladan. ... Merodach-baladan. ...
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