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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Merodach (A male deity in the Old Testament)
Marduk, Babylon's chief god. Jeremiah announces Babylon's fall with "Merodach is broken in pieces." The Cyrus Cylinder credits Marduk with handing Babylon to Cyrus, the very fall the oracle looks for.
Marduk, Babylon's chief god. Jeremiah announces Babylon's fall with "Merodach is broken in pieces." The Cyrus Cylinder credits Marduk with handing Babylon to Cyrus, the very fall the oracle looks for.
Merodach is not a person but Marduk, the chief god of Babylon, invoked in Jeremiah's oracle announcing Babylon's fall: "Merodach is broken in pieces" (Jeremiah 50:2). Marduk's supremacy in Babylonian religion is confirmed by extensive cuneiform sources, including the creation epic Enuma Elish and the Cyrus Cylinder, which credits the god with handing Babylon to Cyrus the Persian, the very event this oracle anticipates.
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- Jeremiah 50:2
