Evil-merodach

Ee´vuhl-mair´uh-dak

A Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) king (561–560 BCE) and the immediate successor of Nebuchadnezzar II. Evil-merodach released King Jehoiachin from imprisonment; the Judean king was given an allowance, and for the remainder of his life he dined at the Babylonian king’s table (2Kgs 25:27-30; Jer 52:31-34). Evil-merodach may have been trying to modify his father’s policies; he was killed in a revolution.