Berodach — baladan — He seems to have been the king of Assyria's vice — roy in Babylon, and upon that terrible slaughter in the Assyrian host, and the death of Sennacherib, and the differences among his sons, to have usurped absolute sovereignty over Babylon. And either himself or his son destroyed the Assyrian monarchy, and translated the empire to Babylon. Sent — Partly, for the reasons mentioned, 2 Chronicles 32:31, and partly, to assure himself of the assistance of Hezekiah against the Assyrians, their common enemy.
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2 Kings 20:12
12 At that time Berodachbaladan,d the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.