Isaiah 39

Chap. XXXIX. Ver. 1—8. Hezekiah’s evil conduct.— “Merodach was the name of an idol worshipped by the Baby-

Notes on the verses

Chap. XXXIX. Ver. 1. At (or about) this time.—See (2 Kings 20:12-19), which are almost verbatim the same with this chapter.—Merodach-baladan.—Merodach-baladan, called Berodach-baladan by the mutation of mem and beth, is called Mardoc-empudus in the Canon of Ptolemy, who says he began to reign at Babylon twenty-six years after the era of Nabonassar, A. M. 3283 B.C. 721. For after the death of Belesis Baladan, or Nabonassar, his father, several other princes succeeded in Babylon, before the crown came to him. See Prideaux.—Letters, &c.—Bishop Lowth observes, the LXX. add here, “and ambassadors,” which word seems necessary to the sense, though omitted in the Hebrew text both here and in the other copy.

(2 Kings 10:12) Fay