Merodach-baladan had sought and found in Nagitu, on the coast of Elam, a refuge and place of security where he believed his deadly enemy could not reach him.
Sennacherib apparently feared that this new state would prove a source of danger to the province entrusted to his son; all the more since Merodach-baladan had now become a vassal of Elam, Asshur’s ancient and hereditary enemy.
But it, too, was soon taken after a short siege, and with this the power of Merodach-baladan was broken.
The second reign of Merodach-baladan had lasted barely nine months.
The blow which ruined Merodach-baladan broke up the coalition which he had tried to form against Assyria.
This time the Ninevites, thinking that Elam was certain to intervene, sought how they might finally overpower Merodach-baladan before this interference could prove effectual.
Berosus affirmed that Merodach-baladan was put to death by Belibni.
Merodach-baladan himself and his children once more escaped their clutches, but the State he had tried to create was annihilated, and his power utterly crushed.
Sargon was compelled to retreat to Assyria, but returned in 712, and drove Merodach-Baladan to flight.
Merodach-Baladan is mentioned in the inscriptions of Sargon.
In 709 he defeated Merodach-Baladan at Dur-Yakin, and reconquered Chaldaea, deporting some of the population into Samaria.
Merodach-Baladan once more made his escape, flying probably to Susiana, where we afterwards find his sons living as refugees.
In the following year Sennacherib was in Babylonia, where he drove Merodach-baladan out of the marshes and obliged the Chaldaean prince and his subjects to fly in ships across the Persian Gulf to the opposite coast of Elam.
Merodach-baladan was driven out of Babylonia into his ancestral kingdom of Bit-Yagna.
One of their princes was Merodach-baladan (Isaiah xxxix) who made himself master of all Babylonia.
Merodach-baladan and the nations of southern Syria to resist the common foe, and to this league Egypt promised assistance.
This is described as adjoining “the reed-bed of Bel-baladan and the plantation of the Sun-god.
As long as Nebo-baladan lives the piece of ground, the house, the slaves, and all the rest of his property shall continue in his own possession, according to the terms of this his will.
Nebo-baladan takes the responsibility for the management (?
At Babylon a prince named Merodach Baladan had set himself up against Sennacherib, and sought the friendship of Hezekiah.
Soon after, Babylon was reduced by Sennacherib, and Merodach Baladan driven into exile.
Merodach-Baladan was overthrown by Sargon in 710 B.
Marduk)-Baladan sent his embassy to Hezekiah is disputed.
His eye must have run back to the name of Merodach-baladan in the preceding line.
At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
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 had recovered.
This Baladan was in the habit of dining at noon, and then he took a nap until three o'clock of the afternoon.
After the letter was dispatched, it occurred to Baladan that it had not been composed properly.
Against Babylon he undertook, so far as we can see, no offensive war; he was content to drive out of the field the auxiliaries which Nebu-Baladan of Babylon sent to a prince on the middle Euphrates without pursuing the advantage further.
Melishiḫu made a grant of land to his son, Merodach-baladan I.
In a very similar way the Chaldean conqueror, Merodach-baladan II.
A fine charter from the time of Merodach-baladan I.
Merodach-baladan re-entered Babylon immediately after the death of Sargon in B.
This was in return for an attack made by Sennacherib upon the Chaldæan colony in Elam, where the followers of Merodach-baladan had found a refuge.
Merodach-baladan was hunted out of the marshes, and fled with his subjects across the Persian Gulf to the opposite coast of Elam, while a son of Sennacherib was made king of Babylon.
Merodach-baladan had foreseen the coming storm, and had done his best to secure allies.
He had said, I will walk softly all my years; but how arrogantly and rashly he carried himself when Merodach-baladan sent the embassy to congratulate him on his recovery.
The essential is that there was a Merodach-baladan alive, real or only claimant king of Babylon, about 705, and that he was likely at that date to treat with Hezekiah, being himself in revolt against Assyria.
It is remarkable that the name of Merodach-baladan does not help us to decide between the two dates.
King Hezekiah, and of the embassy which Merodach-baladan sent him, and how he received the embassy.
Merodach Baladan is no more, but his son unites with Suzub; all Chaldaea rises; and by its side the Elamites, Aramaeans, and several tribes of Arabia.
And Merodach Baladan acknowledged his weakness; he abandoned the sceptre and throne, and kissed the earth in the presence of my emissary.
Thus died the last scion of Merodach Baladan of whom we hear: so ended the race which for 80 years, with incredible endurance and stubbornness, had asserted the independence of South Chaldaea and Babylonia against Assyria.
The expulsion of Merodach Baladan out of South Chaldaea; the establishment of the successor to the throne of Assyria as regent of Babylon, had no more lasting results than the establishment of Belibus three years before.
Is this Merodach Baladan the Merodach Baladanof Bit Yakin, of South Chaldaea, who paid homage to Tiglath Pilesar II.
The Merodach Baladan of Sennacherib can therefore only be the Merodach Baladan of Tiglath Pilesar, and Sargon, or a son of the same name.
Sennacherib's inscriptions told us that after the campaign in which he had driven Merodach Baladan out of Bit Yakin, he had placed his eldest son, Assurnadin, as regent over Babylon (p.
In the introduction we have: "Merodach Baladan showed the greatest violence against the will of the gods of Babylon; my hand reached him; I took from him all his land.
His archives say nothing of the regency of a brother in Babylon; they do not exclude such a regency, but they show clearly that Merodach Baladan was in possession of the throne of Babylon in 704 B.
Nabu-sabzi is called the son of Silan, and his land Bit Silan; Merodach Baladan is the son of Yakin, and his land is Bit Yakin.
Merodach Baladan had been compelled to retire from Babylonia.
He failed to make head against the Assyrians; the frontier cities were taken by Sargon and Merodach-baladan was left to his fate.
Assyrians under Sargon at Dur-ili in Yamutbal, and though Sargon claims a victory the result was that Babylonia recovered its independence under Merodach-baladan and the Assyrian forces were driven north.
Merodach-baladan felt that he would need all the outside help that he could get against the Assyrians, with whom he was in constant conflict.
According to the Babylonian Chronicle, the conflict with Humbanigas took place in the second year of Merodach-baladan of Babylonia, which was the second year of Sargon as well.
This is the Merodach-baladan who is referred to in 2 Kings xx.
Merodach-baladan therefore took advantage of the death of Sargon and the succession of his son to come forth from his hiding-place, with such of his followers who were available, and an army placed at his disposal by the king of Elam.
The result of this was, the submission of all the Chaldean tribes, including that of which Merodach-baladan (then only a young man) was the chief.
Merodach-baladan fled and took refuge in Nagitu, on the other side of the Persian Gulf, so as to be near his Elamite allies.
Apparently Merodach-baladan had fled from the Nagitu "within the sea" to the mainland.
The following year he pursued Merodach-Baladan to his ancestral stronghold in the marshes; Beth-Yagina was taken by storm, and its unfortunate defenders were sent in chains to Nineveh.
Merodach-Baladan had escaped from captivity, and two years after the death of Sargon had once more possessed himself of Babylon.
Merodach-Baladan in their last retreat at the mouth of the Eulaeus, where land had been given to them by the Elamite king after their expulsion from Babylonia.
Babylonia had broken away from Assyria on the news of Shalmaneser's death, and had submitted itself to Merodach-Baladan the hereditary chieftain of Beth-Yagina in the marshes on the coast of the Persian Gulf.
Merodach-Baladan had made every preparation to meet the coming attack, and the Elamite king had engaged to help him.
The defeat of Merodach-baladan and of Shutruk-nakhunta II.
The three months intervening between the accession of Sargon and that of Merodach-baladan evidently represent a period of indecision.
Sargon declares distinctly that Merodach-baladan had invoked the aid of Khumban-igash.
Merodach-baladan had been careful not to shut himself within the town, but had taken up a position in the marshes, and there awaited the arrival of the Assyrians.
But before long the Elamite prince, threatened in his own domain, forgot everything except his own personal safety, and declared himself unable to render Merodach-baladan any assistance.
Old Merodach Baladan was concerned in the plot and took refuge on the Elamite coast, where the Chaldaeans had formed a colony.
Before Sargon could deal with Merodach Baladanof Babylon, he found it necessary to pursue the arduous task of breaking up a powerful league which had been formed against him in the north.
A Chaldaean king, Merodach Baladan III, had allied himself with the Elamites, and occupied Babylon.
Withal, he won the hearts of the natives by expelling Chaldaeans from the private estates which they had seized during the Merodach-Baladan regime, and restoring them to the rightful heirs.
I think I heard him lift his voice in praise Of Babylon: some minstrelle seeking hire: I need him not to tell me who I am, For I am Baladan of Babylon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baladan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
