Nergal-Sharezer

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treasurer of Nergal
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


NERGAL-SHAREZER.—The Bab. [Note: Babylonian.] Nçrgal-shar-uzur ‘Nergal preserve the king,’ the Rab-mag (wh. see), who, with Nebuzaradan and Nebushazban, released Jeremiah from prison (Jer_39:3; Jer_39:13). It is tempting to suppose that he was the Nçrgal-shar-uzur who married a daughter of Nebuchadrezzar, and later came to the throne of Babylon, and is known from classical writers as Neriglissar (b.c. 559–556).
C. H. W. Johns.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


(See NERGAL; BABYLON.) Sharezer, in Zend, would mean "prince of fire." Two are mentioned (Jer_39:3; Jer_39:13) as accompanying Nebuchadnezzar at the capture of Jerusalem, and as releasing Jeremiah: one has the title (for it is not a distinct person) Rubmag, "chief priest." On Babylonian bricks he is called Nergal-shar-uzar, Rubuemga; the same as Neriglissar (Josephus, Ap. 1:20) who murdered his brother-in-law, Evil Merodach, Nebuchadnezzar's son, and succeeded to the throne as having married Nebuchadnezzar's daughter.
Intemperance, lawlessness, and his elevation of Jehoiachin above the other kings at Babylon, disgusted the Babylonians, so that they deposed Evil Merodach. Nergal-sharezer reigned three or four years, 559-556 B.C., and was succeeded by his son Laborosoarchod, who was murdered after reigning nine months. The palace of Nergal-sharezer is the only large building discovered on the Euphrates' right bank. The bricks state he was "son of Belzikkariskun, king of Babylon," possibly the "chief Chaldaean" (Berosus) who kept the throne for Nebuchadnezzar at Nabopolassar's death, until his arrival at Babylon.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Ner'gal-share'zer. (prince of fire). Nergalsharezer occurs only in Jer_39:3 and Jer_39:13. There appear to have been two persons in the name among the "princes of the king of Babylon," who accompanied Nebuchadnezzar, on his last expedition against Jerusalem.
One of these is not marked by any additional title; but the other has the honorable distinction of Rab-mag, probably, meaning chief of the Magi, see Rab-Mag, and it is to him alone that any particular interest attaches. In sacred Scripture, he appears among the persons who, by command of Nebuchadnezzar, released Jeremiah from prison.
Profane history gives us reason to believe that, he was a personage of great importance, who not long afterward, mounted the Babylonian throne. He is the same as the monarch called, Neriglissar or Neriglissor, who murdered Evil-merodach, the son of Nebuchadnezzar and succeeded him upon the throne. His reign lasted from B.C. 559, to B.C. 556.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


nûr-gal-sha-rē?zar (נרגל־שׁראצר, nēreghal-shar'ecer, Hebrew form of Assyrian Nergal-sar-ušur, ?O Nergal, defend the prince?): A Babylonian officer, the ?Rab-mag,? associated with Nebushazban in the care of Jeremiah after the fall of Jerusalem (Jer_39:3, Jer_39:13). According to Hommel (article ?Babylon,? Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible (five volumes)) and Sayce (Hastings Dictionary of the Bible, under the word), Nergal-sharezer is to be identified with Neriglissar who succeeded Evil-merodach on the throne of Babylon (compare Cheyne and Johns, Encyclopedia Biblica, under the word).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Ner?gal-Share?zer (Nergal, prince of fire).
A military chieftain under Nebuchadnezzar (Jer_39:3).
The chief of the magi (Rab-mag) under the same king, and present in the same expedition (Jer_39:3; Jer_39:13).




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Nergal-sharezer
(Hebrew Nergal'-Sharets'er, ' נֵרְגֵלאּשִׁרְאֶצֶר; Sept. Νηργελσασασάρ, Vat. MS. Νεριγλισσάρ v.r. Μαργανασάρ, Μαργαννασάρ, Νηργελσαρασάρ; Ναγαργᾶς v.r. Νηργέλ, all in Jer_39:3; also Νηργέ καὶ Σαρασάρ, Jer_39:13; Vulg. Neregel et Sereser), the name apparently of two persons among the "princes of the king of Babylon," who accompanied Nebuchadnezzar on his last expedition against Jerusalem, B.C. 588. The first part of the name is the god Nergal (q.v.), and Sharezer is supposed from the Zend to mean prince of fire (Gesen.).
1. The first of these is mentioned only in Jer_39:3, without any other designation or notice.
2. "The other has the honorable distinction of Rabmag (רִבאּמָג), and it is to him alone that any particular interest attaches (Jer_39:3). In sacred Scripture he appears among the persons who, by command of Nebuchadnezzar, released Jeremiah from prison (Jer_39:13); profane history gives us reason to believe that he was a personage of great importance, who not long afterwards mounted the Babylonian throne. This identification depends in part upon the exact resemblance of name which is found on Babylonian bricks in the form of Nergal-shar-uzur; but mainly it rests upon the title Rubu-emga, or Rab-mag, which this king bears in his inscriptions, and on the improbability of there having been, towards the close of the Babylonian period when the monumental monarch must have lived two persons of exactly the same name holding this office. SEE RAB- MAG.
Assuming on these grounds the identity of the scriptural 'Nergal- Sharezer, Rab-mag,' with the monumental 'Neergal-shar-uzur, Rab-emga,' we may learn something of the prince in question from profane authors. There cannot be a doubt that he was the monarch called Neriglissar or Neriglissoor by Berosus (Josephus, c. Ap. 1:30), who murdered Evil- Merodach, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, and succeeded him upon the throne. This prince was married to a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, and was thus the brother-in-law of his predecessor, whom he put to death. His reign lasted between three and four years. He appears to have died a natural death, and certainly left his crown to a young son, Laborosoarchod, who was murdered after a reign of nine months. In the Canon of Ptolemy he appears, under the designation of Nerigassolassar, as reigning four years between Illoarudamus (Evil-Merodach) and Nabonadius, his son's reign not obtaining any mention because it fell short of a year. A palace built by Neriglissar has been discovered at Babylon. It is the only building of any extent on the right bank of the Euphrates. SEE BABYLON.
The bricks bear the name of Nergal-shar-uzur, the title of Rab-mag, and also a statement — which is somewhat surprising — that Nergal-shar-uzur was the son of a certain 'Belzikkar-iskun, king of Babylon.' The only explanation which has been offered of this statement is a conjecture (Rawlinson's Herodotus, 1:518) that Bel-zikkar-iskun may possibly have been the 'chief Chaldnean' who (according to Berosus) kept the royal authority for Nebuchadnezzar during the interval between his father's death and his own arrival at Babylon. SEE NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
Neriglissar could scarcely have given his father the title of king without some ground; and this is at any rate a possible ground, and one compatible with the non-appearance of the name in any extant list of the later Babylonian monarchs. Neriglissars office of RAB-MAG will be further considered under that word. It is evident that he was a personage of importance before he mounted the throne. Some (as Larcher) have sought to identify him with Darius the Mede; but this view is quite untenable. There is abundant reason to believe from his name and his office that he was a native Babylonian — a grandee of high rank under Nebuchadnezzar, who regarded him as a fitting match for one of his daughters. He did not, like Darius Medus, gain Babylon by conquest, but acquired his dominion by an internal revolution. His reign lasted from B.C. 559 to B.C. 556."

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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