Berodaeh. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "Merodach". Compare Isaiah 39:1.
king of Babylon. First occurrence of this title. Babylon and Nineveh the two great cities competing henceforward for supremacy in Assyria. Finally settled by Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar, "the head of gold" (Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38).
sent letters and. present. These did what the king of Assyria and the king of terrors could not do.