Marduk-apla-iddina II, Babylonian King Who Possibly Allied with King Hezekiah
Marduk-apla-iddina II, a minor Babylonian king, appears briefly in the Bible. He was a sufficiently strong enough leader to rule the independent city-state of Babylon in opposition to Assyria, the superpower of the day. He seized control of Babylon in 722 or 721 BC when Sargon II, the third of three Assyrian kings who wiped […]