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Nergal-sharezer
Smith's Bible Dictionary
or Ner'gal-share'zer. (prince of fire). Nergalsharezer occurs only in Jeremiah 39:3 and Jeremiah 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.
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Nergal-sharezer'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/n/nergal-sharezer.html. 1901.
