BD Merodach-baladan King of Babylon in the days of Hezekiah (2 Kgs. 20: 12, where he is cal led Berodach-baladan - Isa. 39: 1; cf. 2 Chr. 32: 31). He made anallianc e with Hezekiah against Sargon, king of Assyria, who, after reducing Jud ah, Edom, and M