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Amel-Marduk (d. 560 BC), was the son and successor of Nebuchadrezzar, , king of Babylon. He reigned only two years (562 - 560 BC). According to the Biblical Book of Kings, he pardoned and released Jehoiachin, king of Judah, who had been a prisoner in Babylon for thirty-seven years.
Mar 9, 2014 · He makes it as far as the accession of Amel-Marduk (aka Evil-Merodach) to the Babylonian throne (2 Kings 25:27). As Ussher sees it, Amel-Marduk takes the throne 3441 years after creation, and all this can be worked out from the Bible.
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Dec 2, 2012 · Amel-Marduk (who is called the evil Merodach in Jeremiah 39:31) released the captive Jehoiachin from a 37-year imprisonment. Nereglissar (560-556 BCE) killed his brother-in-law Amel Marduk in order to claim the throne of Babylon.
Amel-Marduk (Babylonian cuneiform: Amēl-Marduk, meaning "man of Marduk"), also known as Awil-Marduk, or under the biblical rendition of his name, Evil-Merodach (Biblical Hebrew: אֱוִיל מְרֹדַךְ , ʾĔwīl Mərōḏaḵ), was the third king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 562 BC until his overthrow and murder in 560 BC.
- 7 October 562 BC – August 560 BC
- Nebuchadnezzar II
When Nebuchadnezzar died he was succeeded by his son Amel Marduk (Evil-Merodach - 2 Kings 25:27-30 ), who was then succeeded within two years by Nergal-shar-usur ( Jeremiah 39:3; Jeremiah 39:13 ), Nebuchadnezzar’s son-in-law.
Oct 10, 2014 · Amel-Marduk ruled only two years. From Jeremiah 52:31-34 we learn: “Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah (560 B.C.), in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought ...
throne was Amel-marduk, the Evil-merodach of II Kings 25:27. Nor was Babylon captured and its king slain by anyone named "Darius the Mede."' This line of reasoning has led the first author to spell out his general assumption on the book of Daniel in the following way:
