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According to the Midrash, Vashti was the great-granddaughter of King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, the granddaughter of King Amel-Marduk and the daughter of King Belshazzar. During Vashti's father's rule, mobs of Medes and Persians attacked. They murdered Belshazzar that night. Vashti, unknowing of her father's death, ran to her father's quarters.
Amel-Marduk (Babylonian cuneiform: Amēl-Marduk, [1] meaning "man of Marduk"), [1] also known as Awil-Marduk, [2] or under the biblical rendition of his name, Evil-Merodach [1] (Biblical Hebrew: אֱוִיל מְרֹדַךְ , ʾĔwīl Mərōḏaḵ), was the third emperor of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 562 BCE until his overthrow and murder in 560 BCE.
Nebuchadnezzar was initially succeeded by his son, Amel-Marduk, but Amel-Marduk's reign only lasted for two years before Neriglissar usurped the Babylonian throne and put him to death. Through his marriage to Nebuchadnezzar's daughter, possibly significantly older than any of the old king's sons, Neriglissar might have represented a less ...
Amel-Baba must travel to Nippur to collect his fee. On arrival, he encounters Bēltīya-šarrat-Apsî ("who tends the garden called Abundance of Enlil and sits [at a] plot on Right Street selling vegetables"), the daughter of Ra'im-kini-Marduk, who insists in communicating with him in Sumerian (the language of ancient Nippur many centuries earlier), causing much misunderstanding when he ...
Mark Wahlberg’s teenage daughter introduced the newest member of the famous family over the weekend. Grace Wahlberg took to Instagram on Saturday, Feb. 1, to welcome an attention-grabbing ...
The daughter of NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham is heading to her second Olympics. In Rio, she finished 13th overall in high jump at 18 years old. ... Vashti Cunningham was briefly the youngest ...
Amytis was the daughter of Cyaxares, and the sister of Astyages. [3] Amytis had a niece, also named Amytis, from her brother Astyages. [1]Amytis married Nebuchadnezzar to formalize the alliance between the Babylonian and Median dynasties.
Felicity — Vashti’s mom, Randall’s wife — sat on a bench opposite the high jump pit, alternately watching intently, lending encouragement, and coordinating her other children’s schedules ...