Nergal-sharezer

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Nergal-sharezer
     Nergal, protect the king! (1.) One of the "princes of the king
     of Babylon who accompanied him in his last expedition against
     Jerusalem" (Jer. 39:3, 13).
     
       (2.) Another of the "princes," who bore the title of "Rabmag."


     He was one of those who were sent to release Jeremiah from
     prison (Jer. 39:13) by "the captain of the guard." He was a
     Babylonian grandee of high rank. From profane history and the
     inscriptions, we are led to conclude that he was the Neriglissar
     who murdered Evil-merodach, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, and
     succeeded him on the throne of Babylon (B.C. 559-556). He was
     married to a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar. The ruins of a palace,
     the only one on the right bank of the Euphrates, bear
     inscriptions denoting that it was built by this king. He was
     succeeded by his son, a mere boy, who was murdered after a reign
     of some nine months by a conspiracy of the nobles, one of whom,
     Nabonadius, ascended the vacant throne, and reigned for a period
     of seventeen years (B.C. 555-538), at the close of which period
     Babylon was taken by Cyrus. Belshazzar, who comes into notice in
     connection with the taking of Babylon, was by some supposed to
     have been the same as Nabonadius, who was called
     Nebuchadnezzar's son (Dan. 5:11, 18, 22), because he had married
     his daughter. But it is known from the inscriptions that
     Nabonadius had a son called Belshazzar, who may have been his
     father's associate on the throne at the time of the fall of
     Babylon, and who therefore would be the grandson of
     Nebuchadnezzar. The Jews had only one word, usually rendered
     "father," to represent also such a relationship as that of
     "grandfather" or "great-grandfather."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Nergal-sharezer, treasurer of Nergal