2 Kings 20:12

Messengers from Babylon Visit Hezekiah

20:12 At that time Merodach-Baladan ¹  son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah was ill.

2 Kings 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ²  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ³  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ⁴ 

[20:12]  ¹ tc The MT has “Berodach-Baladan,” but several Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses agree with the parallel passage in Isa 39:1 and read “Merodach-Baladan.”

[24:1]  ² tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1]  ³ tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.

[24:1]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”