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'''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]].

'''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<ref>[[Berossus the Chaldean]], ''Babylonika'', from Alexander Polyhistor, of Chaldean kings after Nebuchadnezzar<br />from I.P. Cory ''The Ancient Fragments', 1873, London, UK</ref> (562-560 B.C.) before being murdered by his brother-in-law<ref>[[Berossus the Chaldean]], ''Babylonika'', from Alexander Polyhistor, of Chaldean kings after Nebuchadnezzar<br />from I.P. Cory ''The Ancient Fragments', 1873, London, UK</ref>, who then took the throne.

 

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.

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.

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 [[satire|saterical]] form of 'Evil' and 'Marduk' to commonly write '''Evil-Merodach''' or '''Evil-Marduk'''.

When the general nature of his reign and life is considered in-the-which "he governed public affairs in an illegal and improper manner"<ref>[[Berossus the Chaldean]], ''Babylonika'', from Alexander Polyhistor, of Chaldean kings after Nebuchadnezzar<br />from I.P. Cory ''The Ancient Fragments', 1873, London, UK</ref>, the English obviously flawed transliteration becomes a deliberate [[reduplication]] into the [[satire|saterical]] form of 'Evil' and 'Marduk' to commonly write '''Evil-Merodach''' or '''Evil-Marduk'''.

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