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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 ...
9th century BC depiction from a cylinder seal of the Statue of Marduk, Babylon's patron deity Marduk's main cult image in the city. [ 50 ] Babylon, like the rest of ancient Mesopotamia, followed the Ancient Mesopotamian religion , wherein there was a general accepted hierarchy and dynasty of gods and localized gods who acted as patron deities ...
Given that Amel-Marduk had an older brother in Marduk-nadin-ahi, alive as late as 563 BC, why he was named crown prince is not clear. [ 94 ] Marduk-shum-usur (Akkadian: Marduk-šum-uṣur [ 89 ] or Marduk-šuma-uṣur ) [ 90 ] – named as a "royal prince" in documents from Nebuchadnezzar's 564 BC and 562 BC years, recording payments by his ...
Russ Vought, tapped as CFPB's acting director, directs bureau to issue no new rules, stop new investigations
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 ...
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. Get to know Vashti Cunningham, daughter of ex ...