2 Raja-raja 20:12

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Pada waktu itu Merodakh-Baladan bin Baladan, raja Babel, menyuruh orang membawa surat dan pemberian kepada Hizkia, sebab telah didengarnya bahwa Hizkia sakit tadinya.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Pada waktu itu Merodakh-Baladan bin Baladan, raja Babel, menyuruh orang membawa surat dan pemberian kepada Hizkia, sebab telah didengarnya bahwa Hizkia sakit tadinya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bermula, maka pada masa itu juga dikirimkan Berodakh Baladan bin Baladan, raja Babil, surat kiriman dan bingkisan kepada raja Hizkia karena telah didengarnya raja Hizkia sudah jatuh sakit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3292, bc 712

Berodachbaladan: Isaiah 39:1-8, Merodach-baladan

king: 2 Chronicles 32:31

Babylon: Genesis 10:10, Genesis 11:9, Isaiah 13:1, Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 14:4

sent letters: 2 Samuel 8:10, 2 Samuel 10:2

for he had heard: Isaiah 39:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:11 - carry down Isaiah 14:32 - shall one Isaiah 23:13 - the Assyrian

Gill's Notes on the Bible

At that time Berodachbaladan,.... He is called Merodachbaladan, Isaiah 39:1, so here in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; Isaiah 39:1- :; and by Metasthenes z his father is called Merodach, and he Ben Merodach, who reigned twenty one years, and his father fifty two; from hence to the end of 2 Kings 20:12 the same account is given in the same words as in Isaiah 39:1 throughout, except in 2 Kings 20:13, where it is, "hearkened unto them", and there, "glad of them"; heard the letter the ambassadors brought with pleasure; see the notes there. 2 Kings 20:13- : and following.

z Ut supra. (De Judicio Temp. fol. 221. 2.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Berodach-baladan - The correct form of this name, Merodach-baladan, is given in Isaiah Isaiah 39:1. It is a name composed of three elements, Merodach, the well-known Babylonian god Jeremiah 50:2, but (pal) “a son;” and iddin, or iddina, “has given;” or Baladan may be a form of Beliddin. This king of Babylon is mentioned frequently in the Assyrian inscriptions, and he was not unknown to the Greeks. He had two reigns in Babylon. First of all, he seized the throne in the same year in which Sargon became king of Assyria, 721 B.C., and held it for 12 years, from 721 B.C. to 709 B.C., when Sargon defeated him, and took him prisoner. Secondly, on the death of Sargon and the accession of Sennacherib, when troubles once more arose in Babylonia, be returned there, and had another reign, which lasted six months, during a part of the year 703 B.C. As the embassy of Merodach-Baladan followed closely on the illness of Hezekiah, it would probably be in 713 B.C.

The son of Baladan - In the inscriptions Merodach-Baladan is repeatedly called the son of Yakin or Yagin. This, however, is a discrepancy which admits of easy explanation. The Assyrians are not accurate in their accounts of the parentage of foreign kings. With them Jehu is “the son of Omri.” Yakin was a prince of some repute, to whose dominions Merodach-baladan had succeeded. The Assyrians would call him Yakin’s son, though he might have been his son-in-law, or his grandson.

The embassy was not merely one of congratulation. Its chief object was to inquire with respect to the going back of the shadow, an astronomical marvel in which the Chaldaeans of Babylon would feel a keen interest 2 Chronicles 32:31. A political purpose is moreover implied in the next verse. Merodach-baladan was probably desirous of strengthening himself against Assyria by an alliance with Judaea and with Egypt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 20:12. At that time Berodach-baladan — He is called Merodach-Baladan, Isaiah 39:1, and by the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and by several of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS.; and also by the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. The true reading seems to be Merodach; the מ mem and ב beth might be easily interchanged, and so produce the mistake.

Sent letters and a present — It appears that there was friendship between the king of Babylon and Hezekiah, when the latter and the Assyrians were engaged in a destructive war. The king of Babylon had not only heard of his sickness, but he had heard of the miracle; as we learn from 2 Chronicles 32:31.