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Origin of the name MERODACH-BALADAN.
Etymology of the
name MERODACH-BALADAN.
"Meaning of the baby name MERODACH-BALADAN.
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MERODACH-BALADAN. The
form of the Babylonian royal name Maruduk-bal-iddina
in Hebrew history.
Merodach-baladan, the son of Yagina (Ptolemy's
Yugaeus), and king of the Caldai (Chaldeans), a tribe settled on the
shores of the Persian Gulf. Tiglath-Pileser II. received tribute
from him at Sapiya, in B.C. 731. In B.C. 721, he conquered Babylon,
and made himself king of Babylonia; the Chaldeans henceforth becoming part
of the Babylonian population. In B.C. 711 he sent an embassy to
Hezekiah to ask for alliance, and in B.C. 710 was dethroned by
Sargon. On Sargon's death he returned to Babylon, but was defeated
at Kis, by Sennacherib, and driven to his ancestral kingdom in the
marshes. Thence he was expelled by Sennacherib, in B.C. 700, and
fled to Nagitu-Racci, at the mouth of the Eulaeus, his younger son,
Nahid-Merodach, being made king of the sea-coast. He died before the
destruction of Nagitu by the Assyrians, in B.C. 697. Two kings of
the same name have been assumed, but the Cuneiform inscriptions know only
of the son of Yagina. He was the Mardokempadus of Ptolemy. (An Archaic Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).
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