BERODACH BALADAN, the Son of Baladan King of Babylon. He sent Ambassadors to Hezekiah King of Judah1 2 Kings xx. 1, 2, 3, &c. In the Year of the World 2292, before J. C. 708, before the vulgar Æra 712.with letters and presents, upon receiving information, that he had been sick, and was recovered in a miraculous manner, the Sun or at least the shadow of it, with drawing ten lines backward to confirm the truth to him of Isaiah’s promises; who assured him that his health would be restored, and he live fifteen years longer. Hezekiah was extremely pleased with the arrival of these Ambassadors; and shewed them all that was rich and beautiful in his Palace. God disapproved of his conduct in this particular, and sent Isaiah to tell him, that every thing in his Palace, and all the riches which he and the Kings his Predecessors had amassed together, with the sight whereof he had entertained these foreigners, would be carried to Babylon.
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Translators’ note. Rabbi Nachmenides, who was Head or President of the Academy of Sora, and died in 322, wrote a Comment upon the first Book of Moses, containing the History of the holy Land, together with the literal and mystical sense of this Book. It was called Berefchith Rabba, but is to be distinguished from another work of the same name, which is a Comment on Judah the Holy’s Mishnah composed by one of his Disciples. ↩