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'''Amal-Marduk''', or '''Evil-Merodach''',<ref>Josephus, ''Histories'', 10.11.2; https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/ant-10.htm</ref> reigned as king of [[Babylon]] 562-560 BC. He was the son and successor of [[Nebuchadnezzar II]]<ref>[[II Kings]] 25:27; [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] 52:31, 34</ref> before being murdered and succeeded by [[Neriglissar]].
'''Amal-Marduk''', '''Awil-Marduk'''<ref>Albertz, 2018, p.93</ref>, '''Evil-Marduk''', '''Evil-Merodach''' ([[Hebrew]]: אֱוִיל מְרֹדַךְ, ''ʾÉwīl Mərōḏaḵ'')<ref>Josephus, ''Histories'', 10.11.2;<br />https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/ant-10.htm</ref> or '''Evilmerodachus''' ([[Greek]]: Ενειλμαραδουχος)<ref>[[Berossus the Chaldean]], ''Babylonika'', from Alexander Polyhistor, of the Chaldean Kings after Nebuchadnezzar<br />from I.P. Cory ''The Ancient Fragments'', 1873</ref> reigned as king of [[Babylon]] 562-560 BC. He was the son and successor of [[Nebuchadnezzar II]]<ref>[[II Kings]] 25:27; [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] 52:31, 34</ref> before being murdered and succeeded by [[Neriglissar]].
Evil-Merodach reigned a mere two years (562-560 B.C.) before being murdered by his brother-in-law, who then took the throne (Jer. 39:3, 13). The prophet [[Daniel]] probably influenced Evil-Merodach, who was then kind to the prisoner [[Jehoiachin]], who had held in Babylon for 37 years until Evil-Merodach released him.
Evil-Merodach reigned a mere two years (562-560 B.C.) before being murdered by his brother-in-law, who then took the throne (Jer. 39:3, 13). The prophet [[Daniel]] probably influenced Evil-Merodach, who was then kind to the prisoner [[Jehoiachin]], who had held in Babylon for 37 years until Evil-Merodach released him.
In other respects Evil-Merodach was a brutal and lustful king.
In other respects Evil-Merodach was a brutal and lustful king.
==Etymology==
First we must note that the name literally ''translates'' as a "man of [[Marduk]]"<ref>Weiershäuser, ''Novotny'', 2020, p.1</ref>, or "Marduk's man".
But when we [[transliteration|''transliterate'']] from [[Hebrew]] (אֱוִיל מְרֹדַךְ) into [[English]], it could be written phonetically as: ''ʾÉwīl Mərōḏaḵ''.
Yet when transliterating the [[Greek]] (Ενειλμαραδουχος) ''Enil Mardadoukos'', the form visually triggers the somewhat [[Greek]] dabbling [[English]] reader to see the 'Ενειλ' prefix as 'evil' which is then added to the obvious word μαραδουχος for [[Marduk]]: hence the conjunction '''Evil-Marduk''' or '''Evil-Merodach'''. When the [[English]] reader returns to the [[Hebrew]] [[transliteration]] of ''ʾÉwīl Mərōḏaḵ'', the problem is compounded.
When the general nature of his reign and life is considered, the English obviously flawed transliteration becomes a deliberate [[reduplication]] into the form of 'Evil' and 'Marduk' to commonly write '''Evil-Merodach''' or '''Evil-Marduk'''.
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