| Merodach Baladan |
| Merodach Baladan
- Isaiah 39:1 |
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| Stone
panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath-pileser.
British Museum. |
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Tiglath-Pileser
stela from the walls of his palace. British Museum.
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| A
woman looks at wall reliefs
from the Palace of King Tiglath-Pileser at the
British Museum. |
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The book of Isaiah
also names the historical person of Merodach
Baladan. Baladan was a Chaldean / Babylonian
leader who successfully rebelled against Assyria
in 722 BC and became the king of Babylon in
721 BC.
The Chronicle of the Market Prices (ABC
23) is a historiographical text from ancient
Babylonia. It deals with the prices of commodities.
The translation on the ancient text from
author A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian
Chronicles (1975) and Jean-Jacques Glassner,
Mesopotamian Chronicles (Atlanta, 2004)
Line 10 reads - “The twenty-first
year of Merodach-Baladan”
“At that time Merodach Baladan, 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.” – Isaiah
39
Merodach Baladan’s name is also found
on Sennacherib’s Prism and in the annals
of Sargon of Assyria. The kings of Assyria
were enemies of Merodach and the Chaldean
/ Babylonian empire.
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